قفاز

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qu.faːz/

Noun

قُفَاز (qufāz) m

  1. verbal noun of قَفَزَ (qafaza) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 2

Transfixed from a rare variant قَفَز (qafaz) of قَفَص (qafaṣ, cage), because the surface of a crudely structured glove will often resemble a grid, even in feeling if a medieval gauntlet of iron.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /quf.faːz/
  • (file)

Noun

قُفَّاز (quffāz) m (dual قُفَّازَانِ (quffāzāni), plural قَفَافِيز (qafāfīz) or قُفَّازَات (quffāzāt))

  1. glove
Declension

References

  • Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 436
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), قفاز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 383
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 55
  • Freytag, Georg (1835), قفاز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 479
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قفاز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1047
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