# كاغد
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* كَاغِذ (kāḡiḏ), كَاغَذ (kāḡaḏ), كَاغِيد (kāḡīd)

### Etymology

From Persian کاغذ (kâğaz, kâğez), کاغد (kâğad, kâğed).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaː.ɣið/, /kaː.ɣad/

### Noun

كَاغِد or كَاغَد • (kāḡid or kāḡad) m (collective, singulative كَاغِدَة f (kāḡida), plural كَوَاغِد (kawāḡid))
* a kind of paper

#### Declension
### References

* Ibn Ḵātima (a. 1369) “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XII$^e$ siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال [ʾīrad l-laʾāl min ʾinšād aḍ-ḍawāl]”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris‎, volume 12, number 1, published 1931, page 14 footnote 4
* Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 341

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كاغد (ḱâğıd), from Persian کاغد (kâğed, “paper”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑːʁəd/

### Noun

كاغَد • (kāġad) (dual ?, plural ?)
* tobacco rolling paper

### References

* l-iRšēd, Ḵālid (2012) “كاغد”, in Ḵālid Jumʿa, editor, موسوعة اللهجة الكويتية [The Encyclopedia of the Kuwaiti Dialect]‎, 2nd edition (overall work in Gulf Arabic and Arabic), Kuwaiti City: ناشري [Nāširi], →ISBN

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian کاغذ (kâğaz, “paper”), itself from Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 (kʾγδʾ /⁠kāγaδā⁠/). Further etymology is unknown, perhaps a borrowing from Old Chinese 紙 (OC *kjeʔ); cognate with Azerbaijani kağız, Bashkir ҡағыҙ (qağıź), Kazakh қағаз (qağaz), Kyrgyz кагаз (kagaz), Tatar кәгазь (käğaz’), Turkmen kagyz, Uyghur قەغەز (qeghez) and Uzbek qog'oz.

### Noun

كاغد • (kâğıd) (definite accusative كاغدی (kâğıdı), plural كاغدلر (kâğıdlar))
* paper, a material made of cellulose fibres used for writing or printing
    Synonym: قرطاس (kırtas)
** 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎, page 25:افندیلر ؛ او مسوده ایشته عیناً شو كاغدلردر.Efendiler; o müsvedde işte aynen şu ḱağıdlardır.Gentlemen; that draft is exacly those papers.
* sheet, a usually rectangular piece of paper that has been prepared for writing or printing
* written or printed paper, a letter or document written on a paper sheet
* playing card, any of the rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games

#### Derived terms

* آبادی كاغدی (abadi kâğıdı, “silk paper”)
* اویون كاغدی (oyun kâğıdı, “playing card”)
* كاغد آلمق (kâğıd almak, “to receive a letter or document”)
* كاغد حلواسی (kâğıd helvası, “pastry wafers”)
* كاغد قاپلامق (kâğıd kaplamak, “to paper a room”)
* كاغد یازمق (kâğıd yazmak, “to write a letter”)
* كاغدجی (kâğıdcı, “paper dealer”)
* كاغدخانه (kâğıdhane, “paper manufactory”)
* چرچوه كاغدی (çerçeve kâğıdı, “paper used in lieu of glass”)
* یاغلو كاغد (yağlı kâğıd, “oiled paper”)
* یول كاغدی (yol kâğıdı, “passport”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kâğıt
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ћага
    Latin script: ćaga

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kâğıt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2332
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كاغد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1005
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Charta”, 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 175
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كاغد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3848
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kâğıt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاغد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1518