قاووش

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Arabic

Etymology

Hypothesized to be a variant of Persian قفس (qafas, cage) through a sound shift from /f/ to /v/ then to /w/ when re-borrowed; from Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ), from Aramaic קוּפְסָא (qūp̄ṣā), ultimately from Ancient Greek κάψος (kápsos) or Latin capsus.

Pronunciation

Noun

قَاوُوش (qāwūšm (plural قَوَاوِيش (qawāwīš))

  1. jail cell
    • 2012 July 23, “عن العلويين والثورة”, in Janūbiyya[1]:
      في 1981 كنت موقوفاً بتهمة الانتماء الى «رابطة العمل الشيوعي» داخــــل قاووش فـــي سجن كفــــــر سوسة مع سجناء آخريـــن جلّهم من أبناء الحركة الاسلامية، وكان أحدهم من مدينة حماة يفاخر بانتمائه إلى جماعة الاخوان المسلمين.
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    Synonym: زِنْزَانَة (zinzāna)

Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قاووش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 932
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قاووش”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1065