قاوق

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قاوق (kavuk, a wadded or bulbous cap; a hollow thing, a bladder).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qaː.wuq/

Noun

قَاوُق (qāwuq) m (plural قَوَاوِيق (qawāwīq))

  1. a kind of cylindrical hat or قَلَنْسُوَة (qalansuwa) made of felt
    • 2011 November 2, “أغطية الرأس الرجالية في اليمن: التنوع والوظيفة”, in Mahārāt:
      وعادة يتم وضع كوفية أو قاوق أو غيره قاعدة للعمامة.
      Usually a keffiyeh or Qāwuq or something else is put as a basis for the turban.

Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), قاوق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 864
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), قاوق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 994

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

You can help Wiktionary by providing a proper etymology.

Noun

قاوق (kavuk)

  1. hollow thing
  2. bladder, gall bladder
  3. wadded or bulbous cap, enormous bonnet, toque, shako

Descendants

  • Turkish: kavuk, kauk
  • Arabic: قَاوُق (qāwuq)قَاوُوق (qāwūq)
  • Bulgarian: кау̀к (kaùk)
  • English: caouk
  • French: caouk
  • Macedonian: каук (kauk)
  • Romanian: cauc
  • Russian: кау́к (kaúk)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ка̀ук
    • Latin: kàuk

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.