cafas

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

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Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Proto-Italic *kapsos

Latin capsabor.

Ancient Greek κάψα (kápsa)bor.

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Proto-Italic *kapsos

Latin capsusbor.

Aramaic קַפְצָא (qap̄əṣā)bor.

Arabic قَفَص (qafaṣ)bor.

Classical Persian قَفَس (qafas)bor.

Ottoman Turkish قفس (kafes)bor.

Romanian cafas

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قفس (kafes).

Noun

cafas n (plural cafasuri)

1. (obsolete) balcony

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cafas	cafasul	cafasuri	cafasurile
genitive-dative	cafas	cafasului	cafasuri	cafasurilor
vocative	cafasule		cafasurilor

References

• cafas in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkavas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːvas/, /ˈkavas/

Verb

cafas

1. obsolete form of cas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cafas

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cafas	gafas	nghafas	chafas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.