قصاب

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Aramaic קצבא / ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ (qaṣṣābā, “butcher”). The verb قَصَبَ (qaṣaba, “to cut up”) and a root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b) are from this noun.

Cognate with Hebrew קצב (katsáv).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qasˤ.sˤaːb/

Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))

1. butcher, slaughterer

Declension

Declension of noun قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّاب qaṣṣāb	الْقَصَّاب al-qaṣṣāb	قَصَّاب qaṣṣāb
Nominative	قَصَّابٌ qaṣṣābun	الْقَصَّابُ al-qaṣṣābu	قَصَّابُ qaṣṣābu
Accusative	قَصَّابًا qaṣṣāban	الْقَصَّابَ al-qaṣṣāba	قَصَّابَ qaṣṣāba
Genitive	قَصَّابٍ qaṣṣābin	الْقَصَّابِ al-qaṣṣābi	قَصَّابِ qaṣṣābi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّابَيْن qaṣṣābayn	الْقَصَّابَيْن al-qaṣṣābayn	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Nominative	قَصَّابَانِ qaṣṣābāni	الْقَصَّابَانِ al-qaṣṣābāni	قَصَّابَا qaṣṣābā
Accusative	قَصَّابَيْنِ qaṣṣābayni	الْقَصَّابَيْنِ al-qaṣṣābayni	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Genitive	قَصَّابَيْنِ qaṣṣābayni	الْقَصَّابَيْنِ al-qaṣṣābayni	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Plural	sound masculine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّابِين qaṣṣābīn	الْقَصَّابِين al-qaṣṣābīn	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī
Nominative	قَصَّابُونَ qaṣṣābūna	الْقَصَّابُونَ al-qaṣṣābūna	قَصَّابُو qaṣṣābū
Accusative	قَصَّابِينَ qaṣṣābīna	الْقَصَّابِينَ al-qaṣṣābīna	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī
Genitive	قَصَّابِينَ qaṣṣābīna	الْقَصَّابِينَ al-qaṣṣābīna	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī

Synonyms

• جَزّار (jazzār)
• لَحّام (laḥḥām)

Descendants

• → Georgian: ყასაბი (q̇asabi)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qesab

  Central Kurdish: قەساب (qesab)

• → Middle Armenian: ղասապ (ġasap)
  • Armenian: ղասաբ (ġasab), խասապ (xasap), կասաբ (kasab) (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قصاب (kassâb)
  • → Turkish: kasap
  • → Albanian: kasap
  • → Bulgarian: касапин (kasapin)
  • → Crimean Tatar: qasap
  • → Greek: χασάπης (chasápis)

    ⇒ Aromanian: hãsap

  • → Hungarian: kaszab
  • → Kazakh: қасап (qasap)
  • → Ladino: קאסאפּ, ḳasap
  • → Macedonian: касап (kasap), касапин (kasapin)
  • → Romanian: casap
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kàsapin / Serbo-Croatian: ка̀сапин
• → Persian: قصاب (qassâb)
  • → Kyrgyz: касап (kasap)
  • → Punjabi: قَصائی (qaṣā'ī)/Punjabi: ਕਸਾਈ (kasāī)
  • → Urdu: قصاب (qassāb)

Etymology 2

From قَصَب (qaṣab, “reed”).

Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))

1. reed pipe singer

Declension

Declension of noun قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّاب qaṣṣāb	الْقَصَّاب al-qaṣṣāb	قَصَّاب qaṣṣāb
Nominative	قَصَّابٌ qaṣṣābun	الْقَصَّابُ al-qaṣṣābu	قَصَّابُ qaṣṣābu
Accusative	قَصَّابًا qaṣṣāban	الْقَصَّابَ al-qaṣṣāba	قَصَّابَ qaṣṣāba
Genitive	قَصَّابٍ qaṣṣābin	الْقَصَّابِ al-qaṣṣābi	قَصَّابِ qaṣṣābi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّابَيْن qaṣṣābayn	الْقَصَّابَيْن al-qaṣṣābayn	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Nominative	قَصَّابَانِ qaṣṣābāni	الْقَصَّابَانِ al-qaṣṣābāni	قَصَّابَا qaṣṣābā
Accusative	قَصَّابَيْنِ qaṣṣābayni	الْقَصَّابَيْنِ al-qaṣṣābayni	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Genitive	قَصَّابَيْنِ qaṣṣābayni	الْقَصَّابَيْنِ al-qaṣṣābayni	قَصَّابَيْ qaṣṣābay
Plural	sound masculine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	قَصَّابِين qaṣṣābīn	الْقَصَّابِين al-qaṣṣābīn	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī
Nominative	قَصَّابُونَ qaṣṣābūna	الْقَصَّابُونَ al-qaṣṣābūna	قَصَّابُو qaṣṣābū
Accusative	قَصَّابِينَ qaṣṣābīna	الْقَصَّابِينَ al-qaṣṣābīna	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī
Genitive	قَصَّابِينَ qaṣṣābīna	الْقَصَّابِينَ al-qaṣṣābīna	قَصَّابِي qaṣṣābī

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصاب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 450
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قصاب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 747

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”).

Noun

قصاب • (kasâb)

1. butcher, a person who prepares and sells meat

   Synonym: جزار (cezzar)

2. butcher, slaughterer, a brutal or indiscriminate killer

Derived terms

• قصاب اوغلی (kasâb oğlu, “knave”)
• قصاب باشی (kasâb başı, “person responsible for collecting butcher's taxes”)
• قصاب بیچاغی (kasâb bıçağı, “butcher's knife”)
• قصاب سونگری (kasâb süngeri, “butcher's sponge”)
• قصاب مرهمی (kasâb merhemi, “kind of ointment”)
• قصابخانه (kasâbhâne, “butchershop”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kasap
• → Albanian: kasap
• → Bulgarian: касапин (kasapin)
• → Crimean Tatar: qasap
• → Greek: χασάπης (chasápis)

  ⇒ Aromanian: hãsap

• → Hungarian: kaszab
• → Kazakh: қасап (qasap)
• → Ladino: קאסאפּ, ḳasap
• → Macedonian: касап (kasap), касапин (kasapin)
• → Romanian: casap
• → Serbo-Croatian: kàsapin / Serbo-Croatian: ка̀сапин

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kasap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2454
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قصاب”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[3], Vienna: F. Beck, page 365a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قصاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 961
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lanio”, 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^[5], Vienna, column 912
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قصاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 3702
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kasap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قصاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1455

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qas.ˈsɑːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäs.sɑ́ːb]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qäs.sɔ́ːb̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæs.sɒ́ːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qäs.sɔ́b]

Readings
Classical reading?	qassāḇ
Dari reading?	qassāb
Iranian reading?	ğassâb
Tajik reading?	qassob

Noun

Dari	قصاب
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қассоб

قصاب • (qassâb) (plural قصاب‌ها (qassâb-hâ) or قصابان (qassâbân))

1. butcher

Descendants

• → Gujarati: કસ્સાબ (kassāb)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قصاب (qassāb), from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qəs.sɑːb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

Noun

قصاب • (qassāb) m (Hindi spelling क़स्साब)

1. butcher

Synonyms

• قصائی
• بدھک
• بوچڑ (būcaṛ)