قصاب

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Aramaic קצבא / ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ (qaṣṣābā, “butcher”). The verb قَصَبَ (qaṣaba, “to cut up”) and a root ق ص ب (q-ṣ-b) are from this noun.

Cognate with Hebrew קצב (katsáv).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qasˤ.sˤaːb/

Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))

  1. butcher, slaughterer
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
  • → Georgian: ყასაბი (q̇asabi)
  • → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: qesab
    Central Kurdish: قەساب (qesab)
  • → Middle Armenian: ղասապ (ġasap)
    • Armenian: ղասաբ (ġasab), խասապ (xasap), կասաբ (kasab) (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قصاب (kassâb)
  • → Persian: قصاب (qassâb)

Etymology 2

From قَصَب (qaṣab, “reed”).

Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))

  1. reed pipe singer
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصاب”, 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 450
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قصاب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 747

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb, “butcher”).

Noun

قصاب • (kasâb)

  1. butcher, a person who prepares and sells meat
    Synonym: جزار (cezzar)
  2. butcher, slaughterer, a brutal or indiscriminate killer

Derived terms

  • قصاب اوغلی (kasâb oğlu, “knave”)
  • قصاب باشی (kasâb başı, “person responsible for collecting butcher's taxes”)
  • قصاب بیچاغی (kasâb bıçağı, “butcher's knife”)
  • قصاب سونگری (kasâb süngeri, “butcher's sponge”)
  • قصاب مرهمی (kasâb merhemi, “kind of ointment”)
  • قصابخانه (kasâbhâne, “butchershop”)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [qäs.sɔ́ːb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? qassāḇ
Dari reading? qassāb
Iranian reading? ğassâb
Tajik reading? qassob

Noun

Dari قصاب
Iranian Persian
Tajik қассоб

قصاب • (qassâb) (plural قصاب‌ها (qassâb-hâ) or قصابان (qassâbân))

  1. butcher

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قصاب (qassāb), from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

Pronunciation

Noun

قصاب • (qassāb) m (Hindi spelling क़स्साब)

  1. butcher

Synonyms

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