The russian and turkish words for hat : şapka and шапка are very similar.
It makes me suspect that one language borrowed it from the other.
Which way did the hat travel?
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4Look here: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C5%9Fapka and here en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BA%D0%B0#Russian to get the story: It originated in French, travelled via Russia to Turkey– Sir CornflakesApr 14, 2021 at 11:48
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5I’m voting to close this question because it lacks basic research, in this case a wiktionary lookup.– Sir CornflakesApr 14, 2021 at 11:48
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1@jk-ReinstateMonica. If Wiktionary is correct. Nişanyan derives the Turkish word from Arabic and Semitic. nisanyansozluk.com/?k=%C5%9Fapka– fdbApr 14, 2021 at 20:57
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1@fdb: Interesting, but the meaning of the Arabic word ist "fishing net" and derived from that "knit veil", this would be quite a semantic shift to "hat"– Sir CornflakesApr 15, 2021 at 8:19
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1Bulgarian Wiktionary: старобълг. *шапка в шапкы фрѫшскыѫ „френски шапки“ (Грамота на Мирчо Велики, 1413 г.). Заета по времето на кръстоносните походи от диал. старофр. chappe, фр. chapeau < лат. cappa „плащ с качулка“.– Adam BittlingmayerApr 18, 2021 at 6:33
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