قفاز

• IPA^(key): /qu.faːz/

قُفَاز • (qufāz) m

1. verbal noun of قَفَزَ‎ (qafaza) (form I)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Transfixed from a rare variant قَفَز‎ (qafaz) of قَفَص‎ (qafaṣ, “cage”), because the surface of a crudely structured glove will often resemble a grid, even in feeling if a medieval gauntlet of iron.

• IPA^(key): /quf.faːz/

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قُفَّاز • (quffāz) m (dual قُفَّازَانِ‎ (quffāzāni), plural قَفَافِيز‎ (qafāfīz) or قُفَّازَات‎ (quffāzāt))

1. glove
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 10, Art. 5, page 525, line 18:

     ‏وَالْوَرْدُ يُنَقَّى فِي شَهْرِ أُكْتُوبِرَ مِنَ الْعُشْبِ بِالْأَيَادِي بِالْقُفَّازَاتِ‎

     wa-l-wardu yunaqqā fī šahri ʔuktūbira mina l-ʕušbi bi-l-ʔayādī bi-l-quffāzāti

     Roses are cleansed of weeds in October with gloved hands.

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 436
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قفاز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 383
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 55
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “قفاز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 479
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “قفاز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1047