قپاق

Ottoman Turkish

قپاق

Alternative forms

قاپاق‎ (kapak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kapgak (“cover”); cognate with Azerbaijani qapaq, Bashkir ҡапҡас (qapqas), Kyrgyz капкак (kapkak), Southern Altai какпак (kakpak), Turkmen gapak, Uyghur قاپقاق‎ (qapqaq) and Uzbek qopqoq.

Noun

قپاق • (kapak)

lid, the top or cover of a container
Synonyms: پوشنده‎ (puşende), طبق‎ (tabak)
stopper, bung, cork used to prevent fluids from passing
outside layer of a bale of any damageable commodity
(by extension) outside layer of any goods, when sold apart

Derived terms

دیز قپاغی‎ (diz kapağı, “kneecap”)
قپاق سواریسی‎ (kapak süvarisi, “post-captain in the navy”)
قپاق طاشی‎ (kapak taşı, “flat stone used as a cover”)
قپاقسز‎ (kapaksız, “without a lid or cover”)
قپاقلو‎ (kapaklı, “furnished with a lid or cover”)
گوز قپاغی‎ (göz kapağı, “eyelid”)
یݣ قپاغی‎ (yeñ kapağı, “cuff of a sleeve”)

Related terms

قاپامق‎ (kapamak, “to close”)
قپو‎ (kapu, “door”)

Descendants

Turkish: kapak
- → Northern Kurdish: qepax, qapax
→ Albanian: kapak
→ Armenian: ղափաղ (łapʿał), խափախ (xapʿax), կափաղ (kapʿał)
→ Bulgarian: капак (kapak)
→ Greek: καπάκι (kapáki)
→ Macedonian: капак (kapak)
→ Romanian: capac
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: капак

Latin: kapak

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kapak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2393
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قپاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Operculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1206
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قپاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3610
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1436

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.