قفتان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خفتان (xaftân).

Noun

قفتان • (kaftan)

1. kaftan, an upper gown or robe with long skirts and sleeves; especially, a robe of honor

Derived terms

• قفتان بوجكی (kaftan böceği, “ladybird”)
• قفتانجی (kaftancı, “one who has charge of the robes”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kaftan
• → Armenian: խաֆթան (xaftʻan)
• → Macedonian: кафтан (kaftan)
• → Romanian: caftan
• → Russian: кафта́н (kaftán)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ка̀фтан
  • Latin script: kàftan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaftan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2329
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قفتان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 966b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Toga”, 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 1676
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قفتان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3733
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaftan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قفتان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1467