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Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 328, page 75
Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2004), “կապ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 41ab
Old Armenian
Etymology
The origin is uncertain.[1] Probably an Iranian borrowing,[2] perhaps from an Iranian root meaning "to contain" underlying Persianکفش(kafš, “shoe”).[3][4]
^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կապ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 519–521
^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 16, 887
^ Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 380a
^ Bailey, H. W. (1955) “Indo-Iranian Studies III”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, pages 150–151