پاپاس

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • پاپاز‎ (papaz), پاپز‎ (papaz), پاسپاس‎ (paspas)

Etymology

From Greek παπάς (papás), παππάς (pappás). From the beard of the priest, or Ancient Greek πάππος (páppos, “down of the chin”, literally “grandfather”), the meanings “swab” and “door mat” developed.

Noun

پاپاس • (papas)

  1. priest, clergyman (except a Muslim one)
  2. (card games) king
  3. (nautical) swab
  4. (nautical) doormat

Derived terms
  • پاپاس آطه‌سی‎ (Papas Adası, “Büyükada, Papadonisia, one of the Princes' Islands”)
  • پاپاسلق‎ (papaslık)

Descendants
  • Turkish: papaz
  • → Armenian: Փափազյան (Pʿapʿazyan)
  • → Middle Armenian: փափաս (pʿapʿas)
  • → Greek: παπάζι (papázi)

See also
    Playing cards in Ottoman Turkish · اسقامبیل‎ (iskambil) (layout · text)
    بك‎ (bey), برلی‎ (birli) ایكیلی‎ (ikili) اوچلی‎ (üçlü) درتلی‎ (dörtlü) بشلی‎ (beşli) آلتیلی‎ (altılı) یدیلی‎ (yedili)
    سكزلی‎ (sekizli) طقوزلی‎ (dokuzlu) اونلی‎ (onlu) باجاق‎ (bacak), اوغلان‎ (oğlan), فانتی‎ (fanti) قیز‎ (kız) پاپاز‎ (papaz)

    References
    • Deny, Jean (1921) Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli), Paris: Leroux, page 790
    • Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 556–557
    • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “پاپاس”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 157
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