# پاپوش
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* پابوج (pabuç), پاپوج (papuç)

### Etymology

From Persian پاپوش (pâ-puš).

### Noun

پاپوش • (papuş)
* slipper

#### Derived terms

* پاپوج بوجگی (papuç böceği)
* پاپوججی (papuççu)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: pabuç
* → Albanian: papuçe
* → Arabic: بَابُوج (bābūj), بَابُوش (bābūš)
* → Armenian: փապուճ (pʻapuč), փափուճ (pʻapʻuč)
* → Bulgarian: папуци (papuci)
* → Greek: παπούτσι (papoútsi)
* → Hungarian: papucs
** → Czech: papuče
** → Slovak: papuče
* → Italian: pappuccia
* → Macedonian: па́пуча (pápuča)
* → Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
** → French: babouche
*** → Catalan: babutxa
*** → Czech: papuče
*** → English: babouche
*** → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
**** → Russian: бабу́ша (babúša)
*** → Italian: babbuccia
*** → Spanish: babucha
* → Neapolitan: papuscio
* → Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
* → Pontic Greek: παπούτζιν (papoútzin), παπούτζι (papoútzi), παπούτζ’ (papoútz’)
** → Laz: პაპუწი (p̌ap̌uǯi)
* → Romanian: papuc
* → Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
* → Sicilian: papoccia
** → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux

## Persian
### Etymology

From پا (pâ, “foot”) + پوش (puš), present stem of پوشیدن (pušidan, “to cover”), so literally “foot-cover”. Compare Armenian պաճուճ (pačuč), Georgian ფაფუცი (papuci), ფაფუჭი (papuč̣i), ფაჩუჩი (pačuči), Iranian borrowings.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [pɑː.ˈpoːʃ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰɑː.pʰóːʃ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰɔː.pʰʊ́ːʃ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰɒː.pʰúːʃ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰɔ.pʰɵ́ʃ]

### Noun

| Dari | پاپوش |
| Iranian Persian | پاپوش |
| Tajik | попӯш |
پاپوش • (pâ-puš) (plural پاپوش‌ها (pâ-puš-hâ))
* slipper, babouche

#### Derived terms

* پاپوش درست کردن (pâpuš dorost kardan)

#### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: پاپوش (papuş), پابوج (pabuç), پاپوج (papuç)
** Turkish: pabuç
** → Albanian: papuçe
** → Arabic: بَابُوج (bābūj), بَابُوش (bābūš)
** → Armenian: փապուճ (pʻapuč), փափուճ (pʻapʻuč)
** → Bulgarian: папуци (papuci)
** → Greek: παπούτσι (papoútsi)
** → Hungarian: papucs
*** → Czech: papuče
*** → Slovak: papuče
** → Italian: pappuccia
** → Macedonian: па́пуча (pápuča)
** → Middle French: papouch, (via an Italian form) babuc
*** → French: babouche
**** → Catalan: babutxa
**** → Czech: papuče
**** → English: babouche
**** → German: Babusche, Pampusche, (Silesia) Paputschen pl
***** → Russian: бабу́ша (babúša)
**** → Italian: babbuccia
**** → Spanish: babucha
** → Neapolitan: papuscio
** → Polish: papuć, bambosz, babosze pl, babusze pl
** → Pontic Greek: παπούτζιν (papoútzin), παπούτζι (papoútzi), παπούτζ’ (papoútz’)
*** → Laz: პაპუწი (p̌ap̌uǯi)
** → Romanian: papuc
** → Serbo-Croatian: pàpuča / па̀пуча
** → Sicilian: papoccia
*** → Maltese: papoċċa, papuċa, papuċ, papux
* → Malayalam: പാപ്പാസ് (pāppāsŭ)

### References

* Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1625, page 130b
* Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987) “پاپوش”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 107b