different between spodik vs kolpik

English

Borrowed from Yiddish ????????? (spodik), from Polish spodek (“saucer”).

spodik (plural spodiks)

From Turkish kalpak. Doublet of calpack.

kolpik (plural kolpiks)

A type of traditional headgear worn in families of many Hasidic rabbis, by unmarried children on Shabbat and by rabbis on special occasions. It is a made from brown fur (as opposed to a spodik, worn by Polish Hasidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur).

Israel, Yosef Rescuing the Rebbe of Belz: Belzer Chassidus, Mesorah Publications: 2005, ?ISBN, page 42 [1]

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