کپک
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Persian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A Turkic borrowing.[1] Compare Azerbaijani kəpək.
Noun[edit]
کپک • (kapak)
Etymology 2[edit]
From earlier کفک (kafak, literally “foam, fluff, fuzzy thing”). Generally, mushrooms are equated with fluffy matters.[2]
Noun[edit]
کپک • (kapak)
Derived terms[edit]
- کپک زدن (kapak zadan)
Etymology 3[edit]
From Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).
Noun[edit]
کپک • (kopek)
- kopek (a Russian monetary unit)
References[edit]
- ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 579–580
- ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2020) “Classical New Persian samārō/ūγ ‘mushroom’”, in Iran & the Caucasus[2], volume 24, number 4, , pages 419–422