پاپوش

Ottoman Turkish

پاپوش • (papuş)

Turkish: pabuç
→ Albanian: papuçe
→ Arabic: بَابُوج (bābūj), بَابُوش (bābūš)
→ Armenian: փապուճ (pʻapuč), փափուճ (pʻapʻuč)
→ Bulgarian: папуци (papuci)
→ Greek: παπούτσι (papoútsi)
→ Hungarian: papucs
- → Czech: papuče
- → Slovak: papuče
→ Italian: pappuccia
→ Macedonian: па́пуча (pápuča)
→ Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
- → French: babouche
  - → Catalan: babutxa
  - → Czech: papuče
  - → English: babouche
  - → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
    - → Russian: бабу́ша (babúša)
  - → Italian: babbuccia
  - → Spanish: babucha
→ Neapolitan: papuscio
→ Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
→ Pontic Greek: παπούτζιν (papoútzin), παπούτζι (papoútzi), παπούτζ' (papoútz')
- → Laz: პაპუწი (p̌ap̌uǯi)
→ Romanian: papúc, papúcă, păpúc
→ Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
→ Sicilian: papoccia
- → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux

From (pâ, “foot”) + (puš), present stem of (pušidan, “to cover”), so literally “foot-cover”. Compare Armenian պաճուճ (pačuč), Georgian ფაფუცი (papuci), ფაფუჭი (papuč̣i), ფაჩუჩი (pačuči), Iranian borrowings.

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰɔː.pʰʊ́ːʃ]


Iranian Persian	پاپوش
Dari	پاپوش
Tajik	попӯш

پاپوش • (pâ-puš) (plural پاپوش‌ها (pâ-puš-hâ))

Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1625, page 130b
Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987) “پاپوش”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 107b