قاپو

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately a derivation from Proto-Turkic *kap- (“to close, cover”).

Noun

قاپو (qapu)

1. door, gate
   • XIII^th century [from a XV^th century copy], Ahmed Fakih, Çarhnâme-i Ahmed Fakıh der Bîvefâî-i Rûzigâr; republished as Mecdut Mansuroğlu, editor, Ahmed Fakih. Çarhname, İstanbul: Pulhan Matbaası, 1956, page 8:

     اولوم بر قاپودور كچمك كركدر
     برابر انده سلطانیله چوپان

     Ölüm bir qapudur, gäčmäk gäräkdür
     bärābär anda sulṭān ile čōpān.

          Death is a gate, one has to pass [through it]
          A sultan and a shepherd are equal in it.

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: qapı
• Gagauz: kapu
• Ottoman Turkish: قاپو (kapu), قپو (kapu), قاپی (kapı)
  • Turkish: kapı

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Ottoman Turkish

قاپو

Alternative forms

• قپو (kapu), قاپی (kapı)

Noun

قاپو • (kapu)

1. gate, door
2. office, service, agency, ministry, bureaucratic division

Related terms

• قاپامق (kapamak, “to close, to shut”)
• قاپاق (kapak, “cover”)
• قاپلامق (kaplamak, “to cover, to enclose, to envelop, to wrap, to plate, to veneer”)
• قاپالمق (kapalmak, “to be beleaguered, to be besieged”)
• قاپلاتمق (kaplatmak, “to cause to envelop, to make plate”)
• قاپامق (kapamak, “to close, to shut”)
• قاپلامه (kaplama, “covering, wrapper, envelope”)
• قاپلامه‌جی (kaplamacı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)
• قاپلایش (kaplayış, “action of enveloping, wrapping”)
• قاپلایجی (kaplayıcı, “plater, wrapper, layer, one whose business it is to fold around”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kapı

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Persian

Etymology

From Turkic.

Noun

قاپو • (qâpu)

1. gate

Derived terms

• عالی‌قاپو