قپاق
Ottoman Turkish
قپاق
Alternative forms
- قاپاق (kapak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kapgak (“cover”); cognate with Azerbaijani qapaq, Bashkir ҡапҡас (qapqas), Kyrgyz капкак (kapkak), Southern Altai какпак (kakpak), Turkmen gapak, Uyghur قاپقاق (qapqaq) and Uzbek qopqoq.
Noun
قپاق • (kapak)
- lid, the top or cover of a container
- Synonyms: پوشنده (puşende), طبق (tabak)
- stopper, bung, cork used to prevent fluids from passing
- outside layer of a bale of any damageable commodity
- (by extension) outside layer of any goods, when sold apart
Derived terms
- دیز قپاغی (diz kapağı, “kneecap”)
- قپاقسز (kapaksız, “without a lid or cover”)
- قپاق سواریسی (kapak süvarisi, “post-captain in the navy”)
- قپاق طاشی (kapak taşı, “flat stone used as a cover”)
- قپاقلو (kapaklı, “furnished with a lid or cover”)
- گوز قپاغی (göz kapağı, “eyelid”)
- یݣ قپاغی (yeñ kapağı, “cuff of a sleeve”)
Related terms
- قاپامق (kapamak, “to close”)
- قپو (kapu, “door”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kapak
- → Northern Kurdish: qepax, qapax
- → Albanian: kapak
- → Armenian: ղափաղ (łapʿał), խափախ (xapʿax), կափաղ (kapʿał)
- → Bulgarian: капак (kapak)
- → Greek: καπάκι (kapáki)
- → Macedonian: капак (kapak)
- → Romanian: capac
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: капак
- Latin: kapak
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kapak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2393
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قپاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Operculum”, 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 1206
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قپاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3610
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1436