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Ottoman Turkish
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)
- priest, clergyman (except a Muslim one)
- (card games) king
- (nautical) swab
- (nautical) doormat
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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