капь

See also: кип

Old Church Slavonic
капь

Etymology

An old borrowing from Oghur *käp, from Proto-Turkic *kēp. Compare Chuvash кап (kap, “image”), Hungarian kép.

Noun

капь • (kapĭ) f

  1. image, shape
  2. (paganism) idol

Derived terms
  • капище (kapište)
  • капищьница (kapištĭnica)
  • капищьнъ (kapištĭnŭ)

Descendants
  • Serbo-Croatian: кип
  • Macedonian: кип (kip)
  • Russian: кип (kip)
  • Slovene: kip

References
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “капище”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Бояджиев, Андрей (2016) Старобългарска читанка‎, София
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