قطیفه

Ottoman Turkish

قطیفه

Alternative forms

• قدیفه (kadife)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Semitic *qaṭap-

Arabic قَطَفَ (qaṭafa)

Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa)bor.

Ottoman Turkish قطیفه

Borrowed from Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa, “satin, velvet”).

Noun

قطیفه • (katife, kadife) (plural قطایف (katayıf, kadayıf))

1. velvet, a closely woven fabric, originally of silk, with a thick, short pile on one side

Derived terms

• قطیفه چیچكی (kadife çiçeği, “marigold”)
• قطیفه گبی (kadife gibi, “smooth, not rough”)
• قطیفه‌لو (kadifeli, “lined with velvet”)
• پاموق قطیفه‌سی (pamuk kadifesi, “cotton-velvet”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kadife
• → Abkhaz: акадифа (akʼadifa)
• → Albanian: kadife
• → Armenian: խատիֆէ (xatifē), խատիֆէ (xatifē) (Constantinople), խադիֆա / խատիֆա (xadifa) (Nor Nakhichevan), կա̈դիֆա̈ (kädifä), կա̈դո̈ւֆա̈ (kädüfä) (Van)
• → Aromanian: catife
• → Bulgarian: кадифе́ (kadifé)
• → Laz: კატუჶე (ǩat͏̌ufe)
• → Macedonian: кадифе (kadife)
• → Romanian: catifea
• → Serbo-Croatian: kadífa / кади́фа
• → Ubykh: ӄадифа (qadifa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kadife”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2322
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قطیفه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 367a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قطیفه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Holosericum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 700
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قطیفه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3726
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kadife”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قطیفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1463