kadife

• kadyfe — archaic

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قطیفه (katife, kadife).

• IPA^(key): /kadiˈfe/, /kaˈdife/
• Rhymes: -e, -ife

kadife f (plural kadife, definite kadifeja or kadifja)

1. velvet

kadife

1. velvety: soft and smooth

   Synonym: i kadifenjtë

• “kadifé,~ja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 757b
• Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “kadife”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 237
• Mann, S. E. (1948), “kadifé”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 173b
• Meyer, G. (1891), “kadifé”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 165

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قطیفه (kadife, katife), from Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa). Doublet of kadayıf.

• IPA^(key): /ka.diːˈfe/

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• Hyphenation: ka‧di‧fe

kadife

1. velvet, made of velvet
2. (by extension) soft

kadife (definite accusative kadifeyi, plural kadifeler)

1. velvet

• “kadife”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “kadife”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kadife”, in Nişanyan Sözlük