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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama).
Noun
kapama f (Cyrillic spelling капама)
- A dish containing green vegetables and often meat, most commonly lamb
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama, “an act of shutting, closing, confining; a kind of coat or cloak closing in front; a kind of stew, prepared in a closed vessel”),[1][2] from قپامق (ḳapamaḳ, “to close, to shut, to confine”), from Proto-Turkic *kapga-, from *kap- (“to close”),[3][4] morphologically kapa- + -ma.
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /ka.paˈma/
- Hyphenation: ka‧pa‧ma
Noun
kapama (definite accusative kapamayı, plural kapamalar)
- verbal noun of kapamak
- Lamb or chicken cooked with rice, lettuce and other optional ingredients in a roasting pan.
- (figurative) A mistress.
Declension
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /kaˈpama/
- Hyphenation: ka‧pa‧ma
Verb
kapama
- second-person singular negative imperative of kapamak
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قپامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1434
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قپامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kapa-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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