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Definition: Caftan |
CaftanNoun1. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East. 2. A (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caftan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Caftan A garment worn in Turkey and other Eastern countries. It is a sort of under-tunic or vest tied by a girdle at the waist. "Picturesque merchants and their customers, no longer in the big trousers of Egypt, but [in] the long caftans and abas of Syria."- B. Taylor. Lands of the Saracen, chap. ix. p. 122. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CaftanSynonym: kaftan (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caftan |
| English words defined with "caftan": kaftan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Caftan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (caftan), Romanian (gown, mantle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Caftan d'amour (1988) | |
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| "Caftan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Caftan" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caftan | 98 |
2003 caftan | 10 |
caftan pattern | 6 |
caftan man | 3 |
gauze caftan | 2 |
caftan pattern sewing | 2 |
caftan catalog | 2 |
caftan moroccan | 2 |
caftan gauze man | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caftan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kaftan (kaftan). (various references) | |
Arabic | قفطان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кафтан (kaftan), дълга туника (kaftan). (various references) | |
Czech | kaftan (gabardine, gaberdine, kaftan). (various references) | |
Dutch | kaftan. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaftano. (various references) | |
Farsi | خفتان(نوعی لباس مردانه). (various references) | |
Finnish | kauhtana (cassock, gown). (various references) | |
French | caftan. (various references) | |
German | Kaftan (kaftan). (various references) | |
Greek | καφτάνι, χιτώνασ (camisole, cassock, gaberdine, tunic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קפטן, 'לימ" (cloak, frock, gown, mantle, robe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kaftán (Dolman, gabardine, gaberdine, kaftan). (various references) | |
Italian | caffetano. (various references) | |
Manx | sliman (house-coat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftancay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cafetã (kaftan). (various references) | |
Russian | кафтан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kaftan (gaberdine, kaftan). (various references) | |
Spanish | camiseta rusa, caftán (kaftan), cafta/n. (various references) | |
Swedish | kaftan (cassock, gabardine, gabberdine, gaberdine, kaftan). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaftan (robe). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caftan": caftans. (additional references) | |
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"Caftan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadfan, Caetani, cafan, Caffa, Caffon, caflan, caftain, caften, cantan, captan, Cartan, Castano, Catan, Cathan, catna, Cattan, Cefta, ceftin, cetan, Chattan, Claffam, Coetan, Cofan, Cofton, Cufton, Jafta, kafan, kaftaned, Katan, Kufta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-n-t" | |
-2 letters: acta, anta, cant, fact. | |
-3 letters: act, aft, ana, ant, can, cat, fan, fat, tan. | |
-4 letters: aa, an, at, fa, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-n-t" | |
+1 letter: caftans, fanatic. | |
+2 letters: fanatics. | |
+3 letters: catfacing, craftsman, fabricant, factional, fanatical, fantastic, fascinate, handcraft. | |
+4 letters: catfacings, crankshaft, fabricants, fanaticism, fanaticize, fantastico, fantastics, fasciation, fascinated, fascinates, fascinator, fractional, handcrafts, handicraft, magnificat, nonfactual, surfactant. | |
+5 letters: affectation, affectional, anfractuous, antifascism, antifascist, caffeinated, confabulate, conflagrant, craftsmanly, craftswoman, crankshafts, defalcating, defalcation, fabricating, fabrication, factionally, factualness, fanatically, fanaticisms, fanaticized, fanaticizes, fantastical, fasciations, fascinating, fascination, fascinators, fractionate, frantically, handcrafted, handicrafts, interfacial, magnificats, malefaction, manufactory, manufacture, rarefaction, surfactants. | |
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