قفس
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian قَفَس (qafas), itself from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).
Noun
[edit]قفس • (kafes) (plural قفسلر (kafesler))
- birdcage, any cage used to keep birds and poultry in
- latticework, treillage, grating
- Synonym: شبكه (şebeke)
- (architecture) frame of a wooden house
- kafes, a section of the imperial harem where princes where kept under house-arrest [from 1617]
- Synonym: چمشیرلك (çimşirlik)
- (figuratively) skeleton of a man or beast
- Synonym: اسكلت (iskelet)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kafes
- → Albanian: kafaz
- → Armenian: խաֆես (xafes), կաֆաս (kafas)
- → Bulgarian: кафе́з (kaféz)
- → Crimean Tatar: qafes
- → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
- → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
- → Romanian: cafas
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kafes”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2327
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cavea”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 163
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قفس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 3734–3735
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kafes”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467
Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [qa.ˈfas]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [qæ.fǽs]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [qä.fǽs]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | qafas |
Dari reading? | qafas |
Iranian reading? | ğafas |
Tajik reading? | qafas |
Noun
[edit]Dari | قفس |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | қафас |
قَفَس • (qafas) (plural قفسها (qafas-hâ))
- cage
- 2007, Moein, “Jodayi [جدایی]”, in Tolou:
- بنویس فرصت موندن یه نفس بود
سهم من از همه دنیا یه قفس بود- benevis, forsat-e mundan ye nafas bud
sahm-e man az hame donyâ ye qafas bud - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- benevis, forsat-e mundan ye nafas bud
Derived terms
[edit]- قفسه (qafase, “cupboard”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
- → Gujarati: કફસ (kaphas)
- → Hindustani:
- → Uyghur: قەپەز (qepez)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قفس (kafes)
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian قَفَس (qafas), from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).
Noun
[edit]Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms borrowed from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Arabic
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- ota:Architecture
- ota:Animal dwellings
- ota:Skeleton
- ota:Rooms
- Persian terms borrowed from Arabic
- Persian terms derived from Arabic
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- Persian terms with quotations
- Urdu terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Urdu terms derived from Classical Persian
- Urdu terms derived from Arabic
- Urdu lemmas
- Urdu nouns
- Urdu masculine nouns