قات
See also: قاب
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From قَتَّ (qatta, “to cut lengthwise”) with the classical قَتّ (qatt, “lucerne”).
Noun edit
قَات • (qāt) m
Descendants edit
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”); cognate with Azerbaijani qat, Bashkir ҡат (qat), Crimean Tatar qat, Kazakh қат (qat), Kyrgyz кат (kat), Turkmen gat, Uyghur قات (qat) and Uzbek qat.
Noun edit
قات • (kat)
- coat, layer, a single thickness of some material covering a surface
- Synonym: تبقه (tabaka)
- fold, an act of bending a material over so that it comes in contact with itself
- Synonym: بوكلوم (büklüm)
- (sewing) pleat, a fold in the fabric of a garment as a part of its design
- (architecture) storey, deck, a floor or level of a building or ship
Adverb edit
قات • (kat)
- in layers, coats
- in several storeys
- time after time, repeatedly
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Turkish: kat
- → Albanian: kat
- → Armenian: խաթ (xatʻ), ղաթ (ġatʻ), կաթ (katʻ)
- → Laz: კატი (ǩaťi)
- → Macedonian: кат (kat)
- → Northern Kurdish: qat
- → Romanian: cat
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kat2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2465
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قات”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 348b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 920
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Plica”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1308
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, columns 3571–3572
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408
Uyghur edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *kat.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish kat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
قات • (qat) (plural قاتلار (qatlar))
References edit
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kat”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 593
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kat”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading edit
- Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN