قلنسوة

Arabic

قَلَنْسُوَة

Alternative forms

  • قُلَنْسِيَة (qulansiya)

Etymology

Obscure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.lan.su.wa/

Noun

قَلَنْسُوَة (qalansuwa) f (plural قَلَانِس (qalānis) or قَلَانِيس (qalānīs))

  1. hood, cowl, coif
  2. skullcap, beret
    1. yarmulke

Declension

Derived terms

  • تَقَلْنَسَ (taqalnasa, to bear a cap)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 365–371
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 54
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2011), قلنسوة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1055
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