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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