Meaning of kaftán | Babel Free

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kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)

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“1651, Miklós Zrínyi, Szigeti veszedelem (The Siege of Sziget), Franklin (1901), canto 3, stanza 31, translated by László Kőrössy”

From one of his shoulders his fine kaftan / He let down, began adjusting the kobza. / He sat toward the window, crossing his legs, / Thus with the kobza’s voice, he opened his lusty throat:

“„Szép úrfiak! a nap nyugvóra hajolt, / Immár födi vállát bíborszinü kaftán, / Szél zendül az erdőn, – ott leskel a hold: / Idekinn hideg éj sziszeg aztán!””

“Gentlemen handsome, the sun’s gone to sleep, / over its shoulders hang red robes of a kaftan; / wind strikes up the wood-stems, moon spies through the deep, / chilly night swishes o’er the dead captain.”

“1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember (Timar’s Two Worlds), part 1, chapter 2, translated by Mrs. Hegan Kennard”

At the door of the double cabin sits (in the original: “stands”) a man of fifty, smoking a Turkish chibouque. His features are Oriental, with more of the Turkish than the Greek type; his dress, with the striped kaftan and red fez, is like that of a Servian or Greek.

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