قطیفه

Ottoman Turkish

قطیفه

Alternative forms

• قدیفه (kadife)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa, “satin, velvet”).

Noun

قطیفه • (katife, kadife) (plural قطایف (katayıf, kadayıf))

1. velvet, a closely woven fabric, originally of silk, with a thick, short pile on one side

Derived terms

• قطیفه چیچكی (kadife çiçeği, “marigold”)
• قطیفه گبی (kadife gibi, “smooth, not rough”)
• قطیفه‌لو (kadifeli, “lined with velvet”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kadife
• → Abkhaz: акадифа (akʼadifa)
• → Albanian: kadife
• → Armenian: խատիֆէ (xatifē), խատիֆա (xatifa), կա̈դիֆա̈ (kädifä), կա̈դո̈ւֆա̈ (kädüfä)
• → Aromanian: catife
• → Bulgarian: кадифе́ (kadifé)
• → Macedonian: кадифе (kadife)
• → Romanian: catifea
• → Serbo-Croatian: kadífa／кади́фа
• → Ubykh: ӄадифа (qadifa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kadife”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2322
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قطیفه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 367a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قطیفه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Holosericum”, 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 700
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قطیفه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3726
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kadife”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قطیفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1463