kopça
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See also: Kopča
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوپچه (ḳopça, “a hook-and-eye”),[1] from Hungarian kapocs (“hook, clamp, clip, buckle”).[2] Cognates with Albanian kopsë, Bulgarian ко́пче (kópče), Gagauz kopça, Greek κόπιτσα (kópitsa), Northern Kurdish qopçe, Macedonian копче (kopče), Russian кнопка (knopka), Serbo-Croatian копча, kopča.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kopça (definite accusative kopçayı, plural kopçalar)
- A hook and eye.
- (regional) A button.
- Synonym: düğme
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوپجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1479
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kopça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “kopça”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kopça¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2742