kaput

Meaning

hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.put/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote, ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of şef.

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