قفص

From Aramaic קוּפְסָא‎ (qūp̄sā) / קַפְצָא‎ (qap̄əṣā) / ܩܰܦܣܳܐ‎ (qap̄əsā) / ܩܰܦܨܳܐ‎ (qap̄əṣā, “cage”), from Ancient Greek κάψος (kápsos) or Latin capsus.

• IPA^(key): /qa.fasˤ/, (obsolete) IPA^(key): /qufsˤ/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /qfasˤ/

قَفَص or قُفْص • (qafaṣ or qufṣ) m (plural أَقْفَاص‎ (ʔaqfāṣ))

1. cage, birdcage, pen, coop
2. basket, particularly if it is similar in mould to a cage

   Synonym: سَلَّة‎ (salla)

3. thorax

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• Maltese: qafas
• → Kazakh: қапас (qapas)
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قەفەس‎ (qefes), قەفەز‎ (qefez)

  Northern Kurdish: qefes

  Southern Kurdish: قەفەس‎ (qefes), قەفەز‎ (qefez)

• → Persian: قفس‎ (qafas)
  • → Azerbaijani: qəfəs
  • → Gujarati: કફસ (kaphas)
  • → Hindustani

    Hindi: क़फ़स (qafas)

    Urdu: قَفَس‎ (qafas)

  • → Uyghur: قەپەز‎ (qepez)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قفس‎ (kafes)
    • Turkish: kafes
    • → Albanian: kafaz
    • → Armenian: խաֆես (xafes), կաֆաս (kafas)
    • → Bulgarian: кафе́з (kaféz)
    • → Crimean Tatar: qafes
    • → Greek: καφάσι (kafási), καφασωτός (kafasotós)
    • → Macedonian: кафез (kafez)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ка̀вез

      Latin script: kàvez

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 118–119
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “قفص”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2551
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1879), “Bibliographische Anzeigen: Sindban oder die sieben weisen Meister. Syrisch und deutsch. Von Friedrich Baethgen. Leipzig 1879. (38 und 26 S. in Octav)”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 33, page 516

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• IPA^(key): /ɡa.fasˤ/

قَفَص • (gafaṣ) m (plural أَقْفاص‎ (ʔagfāṣ))

1. cage, birdcage, pen, coop