כנף

From Proto-Semitic *kanap-. Compare Arabic كَنَف‎ (kanaf, “wing, side, bosom”)

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kaˈnaf/

כָּנָף • (kanáf) f (dual indefinite כנפיים \ כְּנָפַיִם‎, plural indefinite כְּנָפוֹת‎, singular construct כְּנַף־, dual construct כַּנְפֵי־‎, plural construct כַּנְפוֹת־‎)

1. A wing
   • Zechariah 5:9

     ‏וָאֶשָּׂא עֵינַי וָאֵרֶא וְהִנֵּה שְׁתַּיִם נָשִׁים יוֹצְאוֹת וְרוּחַ בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם וְלָהֵנָּה כְנָפַיִם כְּכַנְפֵי הַחֲסִידָה ותשנה אֶת הָאֵיפָה בֵּין הָאָרֶץ וּבֵין הַשָּׁמָיִם׃‎‎

     va'esa' 'einai va'ere' v'hine sh'tayim nashim yots'ot v'ruakh b'khanfeihem v'lahena kh'nafayim k'khanfei hakhasida vatishena et ha'eyfa ben ha'arets uven hashamayim.

     And I lifted my eyes and I saw, and behold, two women emerging and there was wind in their wings and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they carried the ephah between the land and the sky.

   • אפרת גוש, לראות את האור

     ולרגע יכולתי לברוח כנוצה על כְּנָפָהּ‏ של ציפור

• As with many other nouns, the plural form is rarely used in modern Hebrew even when referring to more than two wings.