ܩܦܣܐ

Neologism, a partial phono-semantic matching of Arabic قَابِس from the verb ܩܵܦܹܣ (qāpēs, “to contract together; to contain, store”).

• (Standard) IPA^(key):

ܩܸܦܣܵܐ • (qipsā) m sg (plural ܩܸܦܣܹ̈ܐ (qipsē))

1. (electricity) plug, connector

• ܡܲܩܦܣܵܢܵܐ (maqpsānā)

Verbal noun of ܩܵܦܹܣ (qāpēs, “to contract”).

• (Standard) IPA^(key):

ܩܦܵܣܵܐ • (qpāsā) m sg (plural ܩܦܵܣܹ̈ܐ (qpāsē))

1. (medicine) contraction, convulsion, spasm
2. store, storehouse, granary

• ܒܹܝܬ݂ ܩܦܵܣܵܐ (bēṯ qpāsā)

From Ancient Greek κάψος (kápsos) or Latin capsus.

• ܩܦܨܐ (qap̄ṣɑ)

• IPA^(key): (singular)
• IPA^(key): (plural)

ܩܦܣܐ • (qap̄sā) m (plural ܩܦܣܐ (qap̄sē))

1. basket
2. cage, birdcage
3. enclosure, pen

• → Arabic: قفص (qafaṣ, qufṣ)
  • Gulf Arabic: قفص (gʊfəṣ)
  • Maltese: qafas
  • → Kazakh: қапас (qapas)
  • → Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: قەفەس (qefes), قەفەز (qefez)

    Northern Kurdish: qefes

    Southern Kurdish: قەفەس (qefes), قەفەز (qefez)

  • → Persian: قفس (qafas)
    • → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
    • → Gujarati: કફસ (kaphas)
    • → Hindustani:

      Hindi: क़फ़स (qafas)

      Urdu: قَفَس (qafas)

    • → Uyghur: قەپەز (qepez)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قفس (kafes)
      • 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:

        Cyrillic script: ка̀вез

        Latin script: kàvez

From the root ܩ-ܦ-ܣ related to contracting.

• IPA^(key): , (singular)
• IPA^(key): , (plural)

ܩܦܣܐ • (qp̄āsā) m (plural ܩܦܣܐ (qp̄āsē))

1. (medicine) contraction, convulsion, spasm
2. store, storehouse, granary

From the root ܩ-ܦ-ܣ related to contracting.

• IPA^(key): , , (singular)
• IPA^(key): , , (plural)
• Homophone: ܩܘܦܣܐ

ܩܦܣܐ • (qup̄sā) m (plural ܩܦܣܐ (qup̄sē))

1. (anatomy) ham, hock; haunch

• “qps²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qpṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qps”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qwpsˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 326b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 514b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 1395a