کپک
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
A Turkic borrowing.[1] Compare Azerbaijani kəpək.
Noun edit
کپک • (kapak)
Etymology 2 edit
From earlier کفک (kafak, literally “foam, fluff, fuzzy thing”). Generally, mushrooms are equated with fluffy matters.[2]
Noun edit
کپک • (kapak)
Derived terms edit
- کپک زدن (kapak zadan)
Etymology 3 edit
From Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).
Noun edit
کپک • (kopek)
- kopek (a Russian monetary unit)
References edit
- ^ 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)[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 579–580
- ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2020) “Classical New Persian samārō/ūγ ‘mushroom’”, in Iran & the Caucasus[2], volume 24, number 4, , pages 419–422