לאַפּסערדאַק

Etymology
Following Šapiro, Russian etymological dictionaries (e.g. Preobraženskij, Vasmer) usually derive from (which in Poland was pronounced  and supposedly had a dialectal meaning “upper body garment”) and,. Taking the meaning “torn clothes, rags” found in Belarusian to be the primary one, Preobraženskij offers an alternative derivation from and,.

Perixanjan dismisses the above as folk etymologies and sees the origin in, itself borrowed from , through a sp → ps metathesis and haplology. She explains the arrival of the Iranian word into Eastern European Yiddish by mediation. The commercial links of Khazars with Iran and Central Asia are well-known.

Noun

 * 1) lapserdak
 * 2)  tallis koton, tallit katan
 * 3)  ragamuffin, ragged fellow