# قصاب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Aramaic קצבא / ܩܰܨܳܒܳܐ (qaṣṣābā, “butcher”). The verb قَصَبَ (qaṣaba, “to cut up”) and a root ق ص ب (q ṣ b) are from this noun.
Cognate with Hebrew קצב (katsáv).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qasˤ.sˤaːb/

#### Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))
* butcher, slaughterer

##### Synonyms

* جَزّار (jazzār)
* لَحّام (laḥḥām)

##### Descendants

* → Georgian: ყასაბი (q̇asabi)
* → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: qesab
    Central Kurdish: قەساب (qesab)
* → Middle Armenian: ղասապ (ġasap)
** Armenian: ղասաբ (ġasab), խասապ (xasap), կասաբ (kasab) (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
* → Ottoman Turkish: قصاب (kassâb)
** → Turkish: kasap
** → Albanian: kasap
** → Bulgarian: касапин (kasapin)
** → Crimean Tatar: qasap
** → Greek: χασάπης (chasápis)
    ⇒ Aromanian: hãsap
** → Hungarian: kaszab
** → Kazakh: қасап (qasap), қасапшы (qasapşy)
** → Ladino: קאסאפּ, kasap
** → Macedonian: касап (kasap), касапин (kasapin)
** → Romanian: casap
** → Serbo-Croatian: kàsapin / Serbo-Croatian: ка̀сапин
* → Persian: قصاب (qassâb)
** → Gujarati: કસ્સાબ (kassāb)
** → Kyrgyz: касап (kasap)
** → Punjabi: قَصائی (qaṣā'ī)/Punjabi: ਕਸਾਈ (kasāī)
** → Urdu: قصاب (qassāb)

### Etymology 2

From قَصَب (qaṣab, “reed”).

#### Noun

قَصَّاب • (qaṣṣāb) m (plural قَصَّابُون (qaṣṣābūn))
* reed pipe singer

##### Declension
### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 258
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “قصاب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 450
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قصاب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 747

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

### Noun

قصاب • (kasâb)
* butcher, a person who prepares and sells meat
    Synonym: جزار (cezzar)
* butcher, slaughterer, a brutal or indiscriminate killer

#### Derived terms

* قصاب اوغلی (kasâb oğlu, “knave”)
* قصاب باشی (kasâb başı, “person responsible for collecting butcher's taxes”)
* قصاب بیچاغی (kasâb bıçağı, “butcher's knife”)
* قصاب سونگری (kasâb süngeri, “butcher's sponge”)
* قصاب مرهمی (kasâb merhemi, “kind of ointment”)
* قصابخانه (kasâbhâne, “butchershop”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kasap
* → Albanian: kasap
* → Bulgarian: касапин (kasapin)
* → Crimean Tatar: qasap
* → Greek: χασάπης (chasápis)
    ⇒ Aromanian: hãsap
* → Hungarian: kaszab
* → Kazakh: қасап (qasap), қасапшы (qasapşy)
* → Ladino: קאסאפּ, kasap
* → Macedonian: касап (kasap), касапин (kasapin)
* → Romanian: casap
* → Serbo-Croatian: kàsapin / Serbo-Croatian: ка̀сапин

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kasap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2454
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قصاب”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 365a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قصاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 961
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lanio”, 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 912
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قصاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3702
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kasap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قصاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1455

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَصَّاب (qaṣṣāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [qas.ˈsɑːβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qäs.sɑ́ːb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qäs.sɔ́ːb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qæs.sɒ́ːb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qäs.sɔ́b]

### Noun

قصاب • (qassâb) (plural قصاب‌ها (qassâb-hâ) or قصابان (qassâbân))
* butcher

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: કસ્સાબ (kassāb)
* → Kyrgyz: касап (kasap)
* → Punjabi: قَصائی (qaṣā'ī)/Punjabi: ਕਸਾਈ (kasāī)
* → Urdu: قصاب (qassāb)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَصَّاب (qassāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /qəs.sɑːb/
* Rhymes: -ɑːb

### Noun

قصاب • (qassāb) m (Hindi spelling क़स्साब)
* butcher

#### Synonyms

* قصائی
* بدھک
* بوچڑ (būcaṛ)