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kafa: Arabic → Ottoman Turkish → Turkish · Lexodus

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kafa

From Ottoman Turkish قفا (kafa), from Arabic قَفًا (qafan, “back of the head; nape of the neck”). The original restricted meaning has been lost in modern Turkish.

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1460
c. 1900

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.