قفس
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قفس 
قفس
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian قَفَس (qafas), itself from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).
Noun
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
- Synonym: چمشیرلك (çimşirlik)
- (figuratively) skeleton of a man or beast
- Synonym: اسكلت (iskelet)
Derived terms
Descendants
- 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
- 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, 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, 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, Vienna, columns 3734–3735
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kafes”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | qafas |
| Dari reading? | qafas |
| Iranian reading? | ğafas |
| Tajik reading? | qafas |
Noun
| Dari | قفس |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | қафас |
قَفَس • (qafas) (plural قفسها (qafas-hâ))
- cage
- 2007, Moein, “Jodayi ”, 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
- قفسه (qafase, “cupboard”)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
- → Gujarati: કફસ (kaphas)
- → Hindustani:
- → Uyghur: قەپەز (qepez)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قفس (kafes)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قَفَس (qafas), from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ).