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The papakha (Adyghe: паӀо, pa'o; Russian: папа́ха, papakha; Chechen: холхазан-куй, holhazan-kuy; Georgian: ფაფახი, papakhi, [pʰapʰaχi]; Armenian: փափախ, p‘ap‘akh, Armenian pronunciation: [pʰɑˈpʰɑχ]; Azerbaijani: papaq, پاپاق, lit. 'Hat'; ) is a wool hat worn by men throughout the Caucasus and also in uniformed regiments in the region and beyond. The word papakha is of Turkic origin (papakh).[1][2][3]
The word papak is also a component of the ethnonym of a Turkic group of uncertain relation: the "Karapapak" (literally "black papakh" in the Azerbaijani language).