پاپوش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

پابوج (pabuç), پاپوج (papuç)

Etymology

From Persian (pâ-puš).

Noun

پاپوش • (papuş)

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: papuc
→ Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
→ Sicilian: papoccia
- → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux

Persian

Etymology

From (pâ, “foot”) + (puš), present stem of (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): /paː.ˈpoːʃ/

(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


Iranian Persian	پاپوش
Dari	پاپوش
Tajik	попӯш

پاپوش • (pâ-puš) (plural پاپوش‌ها)

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: papuc
- → 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