قاش

See also: فأس, فاس, فاش, and قاس

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kāĺ (“eyebrow; edge”).

Noun

قاش (qaş)

1. eyebrow, supercilium
2. collet of a finger-ring

Descendants

• Uyghur: قاش (qash)
• Uzbek: qosh

Khalaj

Noun

قاش (qâş) (definite accusative قاشؽ, plural قاشلار)

1. Arabic spelling of qâş (“eyebrow”)

Declension

Declension of قاش

	singular	plural
nominative	قاش	قاشلار
genitive	قاشؽݧ	قاشلارؽݧ
dative	قاشقا	قاشلارقا
definite accusative	قاشؽ	قاشلارؽ
locative	قاشچا	قاشلارچا
ablative	قاشدا	قاشلاردا
instrumental	قاشلا	قاشلارلا
equative	قاشوارا	قاشلاروارا

Kipchak

Alternative forms

• cas — Codex Cumanicus

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kāĺ (“eyebrow; edge”).

Noun

قاش (kaş)

1. eyebrow, supercilium
2. collet of a finger-ring
3. mountain ridge, collum montis

Descendants

• North Kipchak
  • Bashkir: ҡаш
  • Tatar: каш (qaş) / qaş
• West Kipchak
  • Crimean Tatar: qaş
  • Karachay-Balkar: къаш (qaş)
  • Karaim: къаш, каш, кас
  • Kumyk: къаш (qaş)
• Central Kipchak
  • Karakalpak: qas
  • Kazakh: қас (qas)
  • Nogai: кас (kas)
• East Kipchak
  • Kyrgyz: каш (kaş)
  • Southern Altai: каш (kaš)

References

• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 86
• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 2 (٢)
• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[3], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 18 (١٨)

Ottoman Turkish

قاش

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kāĺ (“eyebrow; edge”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐱁 (qaš), Azerbaijani qaş, Bashkir ҡаш, Kazakh қас (qas), Kyrgyz каш (kaş), Turkmen gāş, Uyghur قاش (qash), Uzbek qosh and Yakut хаас (qaas).

Noun

قاش • (kaş) (definite accusative قاشی (kaşı), plural قاشلر (kaşlar))

1. eyebrow, supercilium, the hair that grows above the eye socket

   Synonyms: ابرو (ebru), حاجب (hâcib)

2. collet, bezel, the rim and flange which encompasses a jewel

Derived terms

• آچق قاش (açık kaş, “brows that do not meet over the nose”)
• ایر قاشی (eyer kaşı, “cantle of a saddle”)
• سمور قاش (samur kaş, “thick eyebrow”)
• قاش آتمق (kaş atmak, “to make a sign raising the eyebrows”)
• قاش ایتمك (kaş etmek, “to make a sign with the eyebrows”)
• قاش چاتمق (kaş çatmak, “to frown”)
• قاشلامق (kaşlamak, “to make a sign with the eyebrows”)
• قاشلانمق (kaşlanmak, “to become an eyebrow”)
• قاشلو (kaşlı, “possessed of eyebrows”)
• قلج قاشی (kılıc kaşı, “guard of a sword”)
• قلم قاش (kalem kaş, “narrow eyebrow”)
• كمان قاش (keman kaş, “arched eyebrow”)
• چاتق قاش (çatık kaş, “brows that meet over the nose”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kaş
• Turkish: kaş

Proper noun

Kaş district

قاش • (kaş)

1. Kaş (a town and district in Antalya province, Turkey)

   Synonym: آندفلی (andifli) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Kaş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaş2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2461
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[4] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 390–391
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 978
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Supercilium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[6], Vienna, column 1630
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 3583
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kaş”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1415
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kaş”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[9], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 435
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “قاش”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 681

Uyghur

Etymology

From Chagatai قاش (qaš), Proto-Turkic *kāĺ (“eyebrow; edge”).

Noun

قاش • (qash) (plural قاشلار (qashlar))

1. eyebrow