پاپاس
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- پاپاز (papaz), پاپز (papaz), پاسپاس (paspas)
Etymology
From Greek παπάς (papás), παππάς (pappás). From the beard of the priest, or Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos, “down of the chin”, literally “grandfather”), the meanings “swab” and “door mat” developed.
Noun
پاپاس • (papas)
Derived terms
- پاپاس آطهسی (Papas Adası, “Büyükada, Papadonisia, one of the Princes' Islands”)
- پاپاسلق (papaslık)
Descendants
- Turkish: papaz
- → Armenian: Փափազյան (Pʻapʻazyan)
- → Middle Armenian: փափաս (pʻapʻas)
- → Greek: παπάζι (papázi)
- → Romanian: popaz
See also
| Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل (iskambil) (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| بك (bey), برلی (birli) | ایكیلی (ikili) | اوچلی (üçlü) | درتلی (dörtlü) | بشلی (beşli) | آلتیلی (altılı) | یدیلی (yedili) |
| سكزلی (sekizli) | طقوزلی (dokuzlu) | اونلی (onlu) | باجاق (bacak), اوغلان (oğlan), فانتی (fanti) | قیز (kız) | پاپاز (papaz) | |
References
- Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 556–557
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پاپاس”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 157