پاپاس

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Greek παπάς (papás), παππάς (pappás). From the beard of the priest, or Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos, down of the chin, literally grandfather), the meanings “swab” and “door mat” developed.

Noun

پاپاس (papas)

  1. priest, clergyman (except a Muslim one)
  2. (card games) king
  3. (nautical) swab
  4. (nautical) doormat

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: papaz
  • Armenian: Փափազյան (Pʻapʻazyan)
  • Middle Armenian: փափաս (pʻapʻas)
  • Greek: παπάζι (papázi)

See also

Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل (iskambil) (layout · text)
بك (bey), برلی (birli) ایكیلی (ikili) اوچلی (üçlü) درتلی (dörtlü) بشلی (beşli) آلتیلی (altılı) یدیلی (yedili)
سكزلی (sekizli) طقوزلی (dokuzlu) اونلی (onlu) باجاق (bacak), اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti) قیز (kız) پاپاز (papaz)

References

  • Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 556–557
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پاپاس”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 157