کفش
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian kpš (kafš, “shoe”), with further origin uncertain. Akin to Old Armenian կօշիկ (kōšik) and Arabic قَفْش (qafš), Iranian loanwords.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Dari | کفش |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | кафш |
کفش • (kafš) (plural کفشها (kafš-hâ))
Usage notes
[edit]- One often uses the singular for a pair of shoes: این کفش (in kafš, “these shoes, this pair of shoes”). This is different from the use of the singular for an indefinite number, which is possible with all nouns: کفش میفروشند (kafš mi-forušand, “they sell shoes”).
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[edit]References
[edit]- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kafš”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 203