قافیه

See also: قافية and قافیہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

قافیه • (kafiye) (plural قوافی)

1. 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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 3589
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قافیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], 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]

• (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

Dari	قافیه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қофия

قافیه • (qâfiye)

1. rhyme

   قافیه تنگ شدن ― qâfiye tang šodan ― to run out of rhymes

   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 486”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]‎^[5]:

     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