, Turkish “the man with the Ḳavuḳ ”, a character of the Turkish Orta oyunu theatre.

Turkish ḳavuḳ indicates a rather high, variously-shaped cap, with a headband, ṣari̊ḳ , wound round it (Ağakay, Türkçe sözlük: sarık sarılan başlık ). Such caps of varying shape and colour according to rank were worn by officers of the Janissaries (cf. Maḥmūd S̲h̲ewket, ʿOt̲h̲mānli̊ tes̲h̲kīlāt ve ḳiyāfet-i ʿaskeriyyesi , ¶ Istanbul 1325, i, 29 ff.). Other professions too had their own special ḳavuḳ, there were wezīr , mollā , kātib and pas̲h̲ali̊ḳ ḳavug̲h̲u , some with specific names: kallāvī , k̲h̲orasānī …