قپاق

Ottoman Turkish

قپاق

Alternative forms

• قاپاق (kapak)
• գափագ (kapak) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kapgak (“cover”); cognate with Azerbaijani qapaq, Bashkir ҡапҡас (qapqas), Kyrgyz капкак (kapkak), Southern Altai какпак (kakpak), Turkmen gapak, Uyghur قاپقاق (qapqaq) and Uzbek qopqoq.

Noun

قپاق • (kapak)

1. lid, the top or cover of a container

   Synonyms: پوشنده (puşende), طبق (tabak)

2. stopper, bung, cork used to prevent fluids from passing
3. outside layer of a bale of any damageable commodity
4. (by extension) outside layer of any goods, when sold apart

Derived terms

• دیز قپاغی (diz kapağı, “kneecap”)
• قپاق سواریسی (kapak süvarisi, “post-captain in the navy”)
• قپاق طاشی (kapak taşı, “flat stone used as a cover”)
• قپاقسز (kapaksız, “without a lid or cover”)
• قپاقلو (kapaklı, “furnished with a lid or cover”)
• گوز قپاغی (göz kapağı, “eyelid”)
• یݣ قپاغی (yeñ kapağı, “cuff of a sleeve”)

 

Related terms

• قاپامق (kapamak, “to close”)
• قپو (kapu, “door”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kapak
  • → Northern Kurdish: qepax, qapax
• → Albanian: kapak
• → Armenian: ղափաղ (ġapʻaġ), խափախ (xapʻax), կափաղ (kapʻaġ)
• → Bulgarian: капак (kapak)
• → Greek: καπάκι (kapáki)
• → Macedonian: капак (kapak)
• → Romanian: capac
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: капак

  Latin script: kapak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kapak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2393
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قپاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 945
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Operculum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قپاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3610
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kapak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قپاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1436