قافیه

See also: قافية and قافیہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَافِيَة (qāfiya, “rhyme”).

Noun

قافیه • (kafiye) (plural قوافی)

rhyme, a rhyming verse

Derived terms

قافیهجی (kafiyeci, “rhymer”)
قافیهسز (kafiyesiz, “without rhyme”)
قافیهلو (kafiyeli, “rhymed”)

Descendants

Turkish: kafiye

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kafiye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2329
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قافیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 931
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rhythmus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1485
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قافیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3589
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قافیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1420

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَافِيَة (qāfiya).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fi.ˈja]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fi.jǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qɑː.fi.jǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qɔː.fi.jǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qɒː.fi.jé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qɔ.fi.jǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	qāfiya
Dari reading^?	qāfiya
Iranian reading^?	ğâfiye
Tajik reading^?	qofiya

Noun


Iranian Persian	قافیه
Dari	قافیه
Tajik	қофия

قافیه • (qâfiye)

rhyme
― qâfiye tang šodan ― to run out of rhymes
- c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 486”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]‎:
  مرغان باغ قافیه سنجند و بذله‌گوی
  تا خواجه می خورد به غزل‌های پهلوی
  murğān-i bāğ qāfiya sanjand u bazla-gūy
  tā xwāja may xwarad ba ğazal-hā-yi pahlavi
  The birds of the garden weigh rhymes and speak with wit,
  So that the lord may drink wine to the tune of Pahlavi ballads.
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: क़ाफ़िया (qāfiyā)
- Urdu: قافیہ (qāfiyā)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قافیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “قافیه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

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