papakha

English

Armenian military commander Andranik wearing a papakha

Alternative forms

• papakh

Etymology

Of Turkic origin: compare Ottoman Turkish پاپاق (papaq), Azerbaijani papaq. Mediated by Russian папа́ха (papáxa), папа́х (papáx).

Noun

papakha (plural papakhas)

1. A fur or sometimes wool hat traditionally worn by men throughout the Caucasus and Central Asia; its shape varies from hemispherical to cylindrical, which may be slightly tapered in either direction.
   • 2015 August 4, Andrew E. Kramer, “Cossacks Face Grim Reprisals From Onetime Allies in Eastern Ukraine”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Outside Russia, the Cossacks tend to be viewed as cartoonish anachronisms, with their whips, papakha fur hats and horses.

Translations

type of hat

• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: փափախ (hy) (pʻapʻax)
• Avar: тӏагъур (tʼağur)
• Azerbaijani: papaq (az)
• Bats: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: холхазан куй (xolxazan kuj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕帕克 (pàpàkè)

• Crimean Tatar: papah
• Czech: papacha
• Esperanto: papaĥo
• Finnish: papaha
• French: papakha (fr)
• Georgian: ფაფახი (ka) (papaxi)
• German: Papacha
• Greek: παπάχα (el) f (papácha)
• Ingush: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: パパーハ (papāha)
• Judeo-Tat: пепех (pepex), попох (popox), килэхь (kiləħ)
• Kazakh: папақ (papaq)
• Korean: 파파하 (papaha)
• Kumyk: папах (papax)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: papax (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бапак (ky) (bapak)
• Lezgi: бапӏах (baṗaꭓ)
• Nogai: папак (papak)
• Ossetian: худ (xud)
• Ottoman Turkish: پاپاق (papaq)
• Persian: پاپاخ (fa) (pâpâx)
• Polish: papacha (pl)
• Romanian: papaha
• Russian: папа́ха (ru) f (papáxa), папа́х (ru) m (papáx)
• Spanish: papaja
• Swedish: kosackmössa (sv)
• Tajik: попох (popox)
• Turkish: papak (tr)
• Turkmen: papak
• Ukrainian: папа́ха f (papáxa)
• Urdu: پاپاخ (pāpāx)
• Uzbek: papax (uz)