کلاف

Persian

Alternative forms

• کلافه (kalâfe), کلاوه (kalâve), کلابه (kalâbe), کلاب (kalâb)

Etymology

Related to Central Kurdish کەڵافە (kellafe, “hank, ball of yarn”), Pashto کلاوه (kalāwá, “skein, hank”), Yaghnobi калопа (kalopa), килопа (kilopa, “a large tuft of wool”), Talysh kılvə (“cocoon”), Sanskrit कलाप (kalāpa, “bundle”), all likely from a sound-symbolic root *kala- used for round objects.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈlaːf/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːf]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːf]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰä.lɑ́ːf]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰä.lɔ́ːf]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲæ.lɒ́ːf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.lɔ́f]

• Rhymes: -aːf

Readings
Classical reading?	kalāf
Dari reading?	kalāf
Iranian reading?	kalâf
Tajik reading?	kalof

Noun

Dari	کلاف
Iranian Persian
Tajik	калоф

کلاف • (kalâf)

1. skein, hank, a ball of thread
2. weasel, reel

Descendants

• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: كالۋا (kalwa)
  • Uzbek: kalava
• → Ottoman Turkish: كلب (kelep), كلبه (kelebe), كلوه (keleve), كلابه (kelabe)
• → Turkmen: kelep

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1989), Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 185
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001), “kałāfa”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 532
• Edelʹman, D. I. (2011), “*¹kala-, *kal-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 187–188
• Hassandoust, Mohammad (2014/2015), “کلاف”, in Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume IV: K-Y, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN , pages 2225–2226
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “کلابه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 859
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “کلافه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 861