different between kaftan vs poncho

English

Alternative forms

• caftan

Etymology

Via Russian ??????? (kaftán), from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kaftan).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?kæf.tæn/.
• IPA^(key): /?kæf.t?n/

Noun

kaftan (plural kaftans)

1. A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
2. A long dress or shirt similar in style to those worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Derived terms

• kaftanlike

Translations

Further reading

• kaftan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

From Turkish kaftan, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kaftan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaf.tan/

Noun

kaftan m inan (diminutive kaftanik)

1. kaftan

Declension

Further reading

• kaftan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kaftan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

kaftan m (plural kaftans)

1. Alternative form of caftan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kaftan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ftan/
• Hyphenation: kaf?tan

Noun

kàftan m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. kaftan

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kaftan).

Noun

kaftan (definite accusative kaftan?, plural kaftanlar)

1. kaftan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?o?/
• Rhymes: -?nt???

Noun

poncho (plural ponchos or ponchoes)

1. A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
   • 1975, Margery Turner Fisher, Who's Who in Children's Books, page 203

     Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]

   • 2011, Bruce N. Anderson, Wingtips Under a Bolivian Poncho, page 130

     It was a gringo in a poncho. It was not really accurate to his suits worn today, but Julia would understand the symbolism that he was adapting to the culture and expectations while far away from home.

2. A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
   • 1845, William Jameson, “Botanical Excursion to Salinas, an Indian Village on Chimborazo”, The London Journal of Botany, Volume 4, p. 382:

     […] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.

   • 1850, Romance of Modern Travel, p. 43:

     I […] took my seat between Juan and Ambrosio, protected from the rain by an India-rubber poncho.

   • 1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
   • I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
   • 1859, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler, p. 39:

     The following list of articles is deemed a sufficient outfit for one man upon a three months’ expedition, viz.: […] 1 gutta percha poncho

   • 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59:

     […] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.

   • 1888, William Eleroy Curtis, The capitals of Spanish America, p. 505:

     It is about the size of the rubber poncho used in the United States, […]

   • 2001, Michael Rutter, Camping Made Easy, 2nd ed., page 98

     If you have to hike all day in a poncho, your pants will be wet thigh-high before long (never mind how fast you'll get wet if you have to go through wet brush or grass).

Translations

Related terms

• ruana
• slicker

French

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Japanese

Romanization

poncho

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Karao

Noun

poncho

1. money collected for a common purpose

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t???/

Noun

poncho n

1. Alternative spelling of ponczo.

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• poncho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• poncho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua punchu.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?põ?u/

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pont??o/, [?põn?.t??o]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua punchu.

Noun

poncho m (plural ponchos)

1. poncho

See also

• ruana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poncho

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of ponchar.

Further reading

• “poncho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.