carpet

Etymology
From late, from , from /, introduced in the 13th century by the from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from , earlier.

Noun

 * 1) A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
 * 2)  Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
 * 3) Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily
 * 4)  A wrought cover for tables.
 * 5)  A woman's pubic hair.
 * 1) Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily
 * 2)  A wrought cover for tables.
 * 3)  A woman's pubic hair.
 * 1)  A wrought cover for tables.
 * 2)  A woman's pubic hair.
 * 1)  A woman's pubic hair.

Usage notes
The terms carpet and are often used interchangeably, but various distinctions are drawn. Most often, a rug is loose and covers part of a floor, while a carpet covers most or all of the floor, and may be loose or attached, while a fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

Initially carpet referred primarily to table and wall coverings, today called or  – the use of the term for floor coverings dates to the 18th century, following trade with Persia.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: ソカㇻペ
 * Albanian:, , dramidhe
 * Amharic: መንጣፍ
 * Arabic: بِسَاط, سَجَّادَة, زُرْبِيّة, زَرْبِيّة, زِرْبِيّة
 * Egyptian Arabic: سجادة
 * Hijazi Arabic: سِجَّادة
 * Moroccan Arabic: زربية
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, xalı, fərş
 * Bashkir: келәм, балаҫ
 * Basque: alfonbra
 * Belarusian: кілі́м, дыва́н
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, моке́т
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: moqueta,
 * Chechen: куз
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏰᏍᏓᎥ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 地毯, 地氈
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ⲕⲟⲩⲫⲁⲧ
 * Cornish: leurlen
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vaip
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: tapêt
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, ნოხი, ორხო
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: τάπης
 * Haitian Creole: tapi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गिलीम, क़ाली, फ़र्श, क़ालीन,, ग़लीचा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: maakangas
 * Ingush: кӏувс
 * Irish: cairpéad
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: кевс
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: кілем
 * Khmer: និសីទន, កំរាល
 * Korean:, 융단(絨緞)
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: فەرش
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ພົມ
 * Latgalian: pokluotive
 * Latin: tapēs, strāgulum
 * Latvian: paklājs
 * Limburgish: kerpèt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: тепих, ќилим
 * Malagasy:, lafike
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: tapit
 * Maori: whāriki, kāpeti
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, дороож
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠪᠢᠰ
 * Navajo: diyogí
 * Norman: tapis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:, moqueta
 * Old English: brǽdels
 * Ossetian: гауыз
 * Ottoman Turkish: خالی, كلیم
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, , , قالین,
 * Plautdietsch: Teppich
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਕਾਰਪੇਟ
 * Quechua: mast'a
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: brat-ùrlair, tapais
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тѐпих, ћѝлим
 * Roman:, ćìlim
 * Sindhi: قالين
 * Sinhalese: කාපට්
 * Slovak: koberec
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:, қолин,
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: hálgoną
 * Tarifit: ajartir, tajartitš
 * Tat: həlou
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གདན, བཞུགས་གདན, རུམ, གྲུམ་རྩེ, ཁ་གདན
 * Tigrinya: ምንጻፍ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: haly
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: گَلِیم, فَرْش, قالِین, بِساط, غَلِیچَہ, قالی, غالِیچَہ, قالِیچَہ
 * Uyghur: گىلەم
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: טעפּיך
 * Zazaki:
 * Zulu: ikhaphethe


 * Dutch:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ido:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:, ,

Verb

 * 1) To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
 * 2)  To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
 * 3) * 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)
 * The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.
 * 1)  To reprimand.
 * 1) * 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)
 * The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.
 * 1)  To reprimand.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German: mit Teppichboden
 * Icelandic: teppaleggja
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: فەرش راخِستِن
 * Persian: فرش کردن
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch: een vormen,  (met)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whāriki
 * Spanish: ,