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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian خفتان (xaftân).
Noun
قفتان • (kaftan)
- kaftan, an upper gown or robe with long skirts and sleeves; especially, a robe of honor
Derived terms
- قفتان بوجكی (kaftan böceği, “ladybird”)
- قفتانجی (kaftancı, “one who has charge of the robes”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaftan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2329
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفتان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Toga”, 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, Vienna, column 1676
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قفتان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3733
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaftan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفتان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467