پاپوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پابوج (pabuç), پاپوج (papuç)

Etymology

From Persian پاپوش (pâ-puš).

Noun

پاپوش • (papuş)

1. slipper

Derived terms

• پاپوج بوجگی (papuç böceği)
• پاپوججی (papuççu)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pabuç
• → Albanian: papuçe
• → Arabic: بَابُوج (bābūj), بَابُوش (bābūš)
• → Armenian: փապուճ (pʻapuč), փափուճ (pʻapʻuč)
• → Bulgarian: папуци (papuci)
• → Greek: παπούτσι (papoútsi)
• → Hungarian: papucs
  • → Czech: papuče
  • → Slovak: papuče
• → Italian: pappuccia
• → Macedonian: па́пуча (pápuča)
• → Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
  • → French: babouche
    • → Catalan: babutxa
    • → Czech: papuče
    • → English: babouche
    • → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
      • → Russian: бабу́ша (babúša)
    • → Italian: babbuccia
    • → Spanish: babucha
• → Neapolitan: papuscio
• → Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
• → Pontic Greek: παπούτζιν (papoútzin), παπούτζι (papoútzi), παπούτζ' (papoútz')
  • → Laz: პაპუწი (p̌ap̌uǯi)
• → Romanian: papúc, papúcă, păpúc
• → Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
• → Sicilian: papoccia
  • → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux

Persian

Etymology

From پا (pâ, “foot”) + پوش (puš), present stem of پوشیدن (pušidan, “to cover”), so literally “foot-cover”. Compare Armenian պաճուճ (pačuč), Georgian ფაფუცი (papuci), ფაფუჭი (papuč̣i), ფაჩუჩი (pačuči), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pɑː.ˈpoːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.pʰʊ́ːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɒː.pʰúːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɔ.pʰɵ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pāpōš
Dari reading?	pāpōš
Iranian reading?	pâpuš
Tajik reading?	popüš

Noun

Dari	پاپوش
Iranian Persian
Tajik	попӯш

پاپوش • (pâ-puš) (plural پاپوش‌ها (pâ-puš-hâ))

1. slipper, babouche

Derived terms

• پاپوش درست کردن (pâpuš dorost kardan)

 

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پاپوش (papuş), پابوج (pabuç), پاپوج (papuç)
  • Turkish: pabuç
  • → Albanian: papuçe
  • → Arabic: بَابُوج (bābūj), بَابُوش (bābūš)
  • → Armenian: փապուճ (pʻapuč), փափուճ (pʻapʻuč)
  • → Bulgarian: папуци (papuci)
  • → Greek: παπούτσι (papoútsi)
  • → Hungarian: papucs
    • → Czech: papuče
    • → Slovak: papuče
  • → Italian: pappuccia
  • → Macedonian: па́пуча (pápuča)
  • → Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
    • → French: babouche
      • → Catalan: babutxa
      • → Czech: papuče
      • → English: babouche
      • → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
        • → Russian: бабу́ша (babúša)
      • → Italian: babbuccia
      • → Spanish: babucha
  • → Neapolitan: papuscio
  • → Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
  • → Pontic Greek: παπούτζιν (papoútzin), παπούτζι (papoútzi), παπούτζ' (papoútz')
    • → Laz: პაპუწი (p̌ap̌uǯi)
  • → Romanian: papúc, papúcă, păpúc
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
  • → Sicilian: papoccia
    • → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux
• → Malayalam: പാപ്പാസ് (pāppāsŭ)

References

• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1625, page 130b
• Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987) “پاپوش”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 107b