قفس

See also: فقس‎ and قفش‎

Ottoman Turkish

قفس

قفس

Etymology

From Persian قفس‎ (qafas), from Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Noun

قفس • (kafes) (plural قفسلر‎ (kafesler))

1. cage, coop, prison, place where an animal including a human is detained
   1. particularly, a section of the imperial harem where princes where kept under house-arrest [from 1617]

      Synonym: چمشیرلك‎ (çimşirlik)

2. latticework, treillage, grating
3. skeleton, thorax

Descendants

• Turkish: kafes
• → Albanian: kafaz
• → Bulgarian: кафѐз (kafѐz)
• → Crimean Tatar: qafes
• → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
• → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀вез

  Latin: kàvez

Derived terms

• قفسلمك‎ (kafeslemek, “to cage, to coop in”)
• قفسلو‎ (kafeslü, “grated”)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قفس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3734–3735

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɢæˈfæs/
• (Isfahan) IPA^(key): /ɢæˈfes/

Noun

قفس • (qafas) (plural قفس‌ها‎ (qafas-hâ))

1. cage
   • 2007, Moein, "Jodayi [جدایی]", Tolou

     ‏بنویس فرصت موندن یه نفس بود
     سهم من از همه دنیا یه قفس بود‎

     benevis, forsat-e mundan ye nafas bud
     sahm-e man az hame donyâ ye qafas bud

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
• → Hindustani

  Hindi: क़फ़स (qafas)

  Urdu: قفس‎ (qafas)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قفس‎ (kafes)
  • Turkish: kafes
  • → Albanian: kafaz
  • → Bulgarian: кафѐз (kafѐz)
  • → Crimean Tatar: qafes
  • → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
  • → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ка̀вез

    Latin: kàvez

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian قفس‎ (qafas), from Arabic قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ).

Noun

قفس • (qafas) ? (Hindi spelling क़फ़स)

1. cage
2. prison