قاپو

Ultimately a derivation from Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close, cover”).

قاپو (qapu)

1. door, gate
   • XIII^th century [from a XV^th century copy], Ahmed Fakih, Çarhnâme-i Ahmed Fakıh der Bîvefâî-i Rûzigâr; republished as Mecdut Mansuroğlu, editor, Ahmed Fakih. Çarhname, İstanbul: Pulhan Matbaası, 1956, page 8:

     ‏اولوم بر قاپودور كچمك كركدر
     برابر انده سلطانیله چوپان‎‎

     Ölüm bir qapudur, gäčmäk gäräkdür
     bärābär anda sulṭān ile čōpān.

          Death is a gate, one has to pass [through it]
          A sultan and a shepherd are equal in it.

• Azerbaijani: qapı
• Gagauz: kapu
• Ottoman Turkish: قاپو‎ (kapu, kapı), قپو‎ (kapu, kapı), قاپی‎ (kapı)
  • Turkish: kapı
  • → Hungarian: kapu
  • → Persian: قاپو‎ (qâpu)
  • → Albanian: kufi

• قپو‎ (kapu, kapı), قاپی‎ (kapı)

A derivation of Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close”).

قاپو • (kapu, kapı)

1. gate, door
2. office, service, agency, ministry, bureaucratic division

• قپوجی‎ (kapıcı, “doorman”)

• قاپامق‎ (kapamak, “to close, to shut”)
• قاپاق‎ (kapak, “cover”)
• قاپلامق‎ (kaplamak, “to cover, to enclose, to envelop, to wrap, to plate, to veneer”)
• قاپالمق‎ (kapalmak, “to be beleaguered, to be besieged”)
• قاپلاتمق‎ (kaplatmak, “to cause to envelop, to make plate”)
• قاپلامه‎ (kaplama, “covering, wrapper, envelope”)
• قاپلامه‌جی‎ (kaplamacı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)
• قاپلایش‎ (kaplayış, “action of enveloping, wrapping”)
• قاپلایجی‎ (kaplayıcı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)

• Turkish: kapı
• → Hungarian: kapu
• → Persian: قاپو‎ (qâpu)
• → Albanian: kufi

• Mallouf, Nassif (1863–1867), “قپو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 971
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قپو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1435

From Turkic.

قاپو • (qâpu)

1. (in compounds) gate

   Synonym: دروازه‎ (darvâze)

• عالی‌قاپو‎