قاووش

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Arabic

Etymology

Hypothesized to be a variant of Persian قفس (qafas, “cage”) through a sound shift from /f/ to /v/ then to /w/ when re-borrowed; from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ), from Aramaic קוּפְסָא (qūp̄ṣā), ultimately from Ancient Greek κάψος (kápsos) or Latin capsus.

Pronunciation

Noun

قَاوُوش • (qāwūš) m (plural قَوَاوِيش (qawāwīš))

  1. jail cell
    Synonym: زِنْزَانَة (zinzāna)
    • 2012 July 23, “عن العلويين والثورة”, in Janūbiyya‎:
      فِي 1981 كُنْتُ مَوْقُوفًا بِتُهْمَةِ ٱلاِنْتِمَاءِ إِلَى «رَابِطَةِ ٱلْعَمَلِ ٱلشُّيُوعِيِّ» دَاخِلَ قَاوُوشٍ فِي سِجْنِ كَفَرَ سُوسُةِ مَعَ سُجَنَاءٍ آخَرِينَ جُلُّهُمْ مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ ٱلْحَرَكَةِ ٱلْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ، وَكَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ حَمَاةَ يُفَاخِرُ بِٱنْتِمَائِهِ إِلَى جَمَاعَةِ ٱلْإِخْوَانِ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ.
      fī 1981 kuntu mawqūfan bituhmati l-intimāʔi ʔilā “rābiṭati l-ʕamali š-šuyūʕiyyi” dāḵila qāwūšin fī sijni kafara sūsuati maʕa sujanāʔin ʔāḵarīna julluhum min ʔabnāʔi l-ḥarakati l-ʔislāmiyyati, wakāna ʔaḥaduhum min madīnati ḥamāta yufāḵiru bintimāʔihi ʔilā jamāʕati l-ʔiḵwāni l-muslimīna.
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Declension

Declension of noun قَاوُوش (qāwūš)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَاوُوش
qāwūš 		الْقَاوُوش
al-qāwūš 		قَاوُوش
qāwūš
Nominative قَاوُوشٌ
qāwūšun 		الْقَاوُوشُ
al-qāwūšu 		قَاوُوشُ
qāwūšu
Accusative قَاوُوشًا
qāwūšan 		الْقَاوُوشَ
al-qāwūša 		قَاوُوشَ
qāwūša
Genitive قَاوُوشٍ
qāwūšin 		الْقَاوُوشِ
al-qāwūši 		قَاوُوشِ
qāwūši
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَاوُوشَيْن
qāwūšayn 		الْقَاوُوشَيْن
al-qāwūšayn 		قَاوُوشَيْ
qāwūšay
Nominative قَاوُوشَانِ
qāwūšāni 		الْقَاوُوشَانِ
al-qāwūšāni 		قَاوُوشَا
qāwūšā
Accusative قَاوُوشَيْنِ
qāwūšayni 		الْقَاوُوشَيْنِ
al-qāwūšayni 		قَاوُوشَيْ
qāwūšay
Genitive قَاوُوشَيْنِ
qāwūšayni 		الْقَاوُوشَيْنِ
al-qāwūšayni 		قَاوُوشَيْ
qāwūšay
Plural basic broken plural diptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal قَوَاوِيش
qawāwīš 		الْقَوَاوِيش
al-qawāwīš 		قَوَاوِيش
qawāwīš
Nominative قَوَاوِيشُ
qawāwīšu 		الْقَوَاوِيشُ
al-qawāwīšu 		قَوَاوِيشُ
qawāwīšu
Accusative قَوَاوِيشَ
qawāwīša 		الْقَوَاوِيشَ
al-qawāwīša 		قَوَاوِيشَ
qawāwīša
Genitive قَوَاوِيشَ
qawāwīša 		الْقَوَاوِيشِ
al-qawāwīši 		قَوَاوِيشِ
qawāwīši

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قاووش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 932
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قاووش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1065
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