قاپو
Old Anatolian Turkish
Etymology
Ultimately a derivation from Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close, cover”).
Noun
قاپو (qapu)
- door, gate
- XIIIth century [from a XVth 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 اندهسلطانیله 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.
- Ölüm bir qapudur, gäčmäk gäräkdür
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Descendants
- Azerbaijani: qapı
- Gagauz: kapu
- Ottoman Turkish: قاپو (kapu, kapı), قپو (kapu, kapı), قاپی (kapı)
- Turkish: kapı
- → Hungarian: kapu
- → Persian: قاپو (qapu)
- → Albanian: kufi
Ottoman Turkish
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قاپو
Alternative forms
- قپو (kapu, kapı), قاپی (kapı)
Etymology
A derivation of Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close”).
Noun
قاپو • (kapu, kapı)
- gate, door
- office, service, agency, ministry, bureaucratic division
Derived terms
- قپوجی (kapıcı, “doorman”)
Related terms
- 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”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kapı
- → Hungarian: kapu
- → Persian: قاپو (qapu)
- → Albanian: kufi
References
- 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
Persian
Etymology
From Turkic.
Noun
قاپو • (qâpu)
- (in compounds) gate
- Synonym: دروازه (darvâze)
Derived terms
- عالیقاپو