قفس

قفس

See also: فقس‎ and قفش‎

Ottoman Turkish

قفس

قفس

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قفس‎ (qafas), itself from Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Noun

قفس • (kafes) (plural قفسلر‎ (kafesler))

1. birdcage, coop, any cage used to keep birds and poultry in
2. latticework, treillage, grating

   Synonym: شبكه‎ (şebeke)

3. (architecture) frame of a wooden house
4. kafes, a section of the imperial harem where princes where kept under house-arrest [from 1617]

   Synonym: چمشیرلك‎ (çimşirlik)

5. (figuratively) skeleton of a man or beast

   Synonym: اسكلت‎ (iskelet)

Derived terms

• قفسجی‎ (kafesci, “lattice-maker”)
• قفسلمك‎ (kafeslemek, “to cage, to coop in”)
• قفسلو‎ (kafeslü, “grated”)
• قفسی‎ (kafesî, “lattice-shaped”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kafes
• → Albanian: kafaz
• → Armenian: խաֆես (xafes), կաֆաս (kafas)
• → Bulgarian: кафе́з (kaféz)
• → Crimean Tatar: qafes
• → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
• → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀вез

  Latin: kàvez

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kafes”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2327
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قفس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 966b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cavea”, 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 163
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قفس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3734–3735
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kafes”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قفس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /qafas/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /qafas/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɢæfæs/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /qafas/

Noun

قفس • (qafas) (plural قفس‌ها‎ (qafas-hâ))

1. cage
   • 2007, Moein, "Jodayi [جدایی]", Tolou

     ‏بنویس فرصت موندن یه نفس بود
     سهم من از همه دنیا یه قفس بود‎

     benevis, forsat-e mundan ye nafas bud
     sahm-e man az hame donyâ ye qafas bud

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
• → Hindustani

  Hindi: क़फ़स (qafas)

  Urdu: قفس‎ (qafas)

• → Uyghur: قەپەس‎ (qepes)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قفس‎ (kafes)
  • Turkish: kafes
  • → Albanian: kafaz
  • → Armenian: խաֆես (xafes), կաֆաս (kafas)
  • → Bulgarian: кафе́з (kaféz)
  • → Crimean Tatar: qafes
  • → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
  • → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ка̀вез

    Latin: kàvez

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قفس‎ (qafas), from Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Noun

قفس • (qafas) ? (Hindi spelling क़फ़स)

1. cage
2. prison