kapama

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama).

kapama f (Cyrillic spelling капама)

1. A dish containing green vegetables and often meat, most commonly lamb

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپامه (ḳapama, “an act of shutting, closing, confining; a kind of coat or cloak closing in front; a kind of stew, prepared in a closed vessel”),[1][2] from قپامق (ḳapamaḳ, “to close, to shut, to confine”), from Proto-Turkic *kapga-, from *kap- (“to close”),[3][4] morphologically kapa- +‎ -ma.

• IPA^(key): /ka.paˈma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧pa‧ma

kapama (definite accusative kapamayı, plural kapamalar)

1. verbal noun of kapamak
2. Lamb or chicken cooked with rice, lettuce and other optional ingredients in a roasting pan.
3. (figurative) A mistress.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpama/
• Hyphenation: ka‧pa‧ma

kapama

1. second-person singular negative imperative of kapamak

• “kapama”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kapama”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2395