قفتان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian خفتان (xaftân).
Noun
قفتان • (kaftan)
- kaftan, an upper gown or robe with long skirts and sleeves; especially, a robe of honor
Derived terms
- قفتان بوجكی (kaftan böceği, “ladybird”)
- قفتانجی (kaftancı, “one who has charge of the robes”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kaftan
- → Armenian: խաֆթան (xaftʿan)
- → Macedonian: кафтан (kaftan)
- → Romanian: caftan
- → Russian: кафта́н (kaftán)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̀фтан
- Latin: kàftan
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kaftan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2329
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قفتان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966b
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Toga”, 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 1676
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قفتان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3733
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kaftan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قفتان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467