Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پابوج ‎(pâbuc)

Noun

پاپوش • ‎(pâpûş)

1. slipper

Persian

Etymology

From پا ‎(pâ, “foot”) + پوش ‎(puš), present stem of پوشیدن ‎(pušidan, “to cover”), so literally "foot-cover".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, Dari) IPA^(key): /pɒːˈpoːʃ/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [pʰɒːˈpʰuːʃ]
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [pʰɒˈpʰuʃ]

Noun

پاپوش • ‎(pâ-puš) ‎(plural پاپوش‌ها ‎(pâ-puš-hâ))

1. slipper, babouche

Derived terms

• پاپوش درست کردن ‎(pâpuš dorost kardan)

Descendants

• Arabic: بابوش ‎(bābūš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پابوج ‎(pâbuc) پاپوش ‎(pâpûş), [script needed] ‎(pabuc), [script needed] ‎(papuc), [script needed] ‎(papuç), [script needed] ‎(babuc), [script needed] ‎(babuç)
  • Turkish: pabuç
  • → Albanian: papuçe
  • → Armenian: փապուճ ‎(pʿapuč), փափուճ ‎(pʿapʿuč)
  • → Greek: παπούτσι ‎(papoútsi)
  • → Hungarian: papucs
    • → Czech: papuče
    • → Slovak: papuče
  • → Italian: pappuccia, (Naples) papuscio
    • → Maltese: papoċċa
  • → Macedonian: па́пуча ‎(pápuča)
  • → Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
    • → French: babouche
      • → English: babouche
      • → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
        • → Russian: бабу́ша ‎(babúša)
      • → Italian: babbuccia
      • → Spanish: babucha
  • → Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
  • → Romanian: papúc, papúcă, păpúc
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча

References

• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1625, page 130b
• Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987), “پاپوش”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 107b