kapama
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama).
Noun edit
kapama f (Cyrillic spelling капама)
- A dish containing green vegetables and often meat, most commonly lamb
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama, “an act of shutting, closing, confining; a kind of coat or cloak closing in front; a kind of stew, prepared in a closed vessel”),[1][2] from قپامق (ḳapamaḳ, “to close, to shut, to confine”), from Proto-Turkic *kapga-, from *kap- (“to close”),[3][4] morphologically kapa- + -ma.
Pronunciation 1 edit
Noun edit
kapama (definite accusative kapamayı, plural kapamalar)
- verbal noun of kapamak
- Lamb or chicken cooked with rice, lettuce and other optional ingredients in a roasting pan.
- (figurative) A mistress.
Declension edit
Pronunciation 2 edit
Verb edit
kapama
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قپامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1434
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قپامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kap-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kapa-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “kapama”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kapama”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2395