Kolpos Kolpos The kolpos (Greek: κόλποις κόλπον κόλπῳ, a gulf, bay or creek) is the "blousing" of a peplos, chiton or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs folded over a zone (a narrow girdle). The fabric of the garment was typically cut longer than the shoulder-to-floor measurement of the women or man wearing it. The excess length was dealt with at the waist (creating the kolpos) and optionally the top edge (creating the apoptygma). To create the kolpos, a zone was tied around the body below the breast (high-girdled) or at the waist (low-girdled) and
Baka (Japanese word) that "baka" derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "fool". According to the Japanese linguist and lexicographer Shinmura Izuru, the Edo-period scholar Amano Sadakage 天野信景 (1663–1733) originally suggested that Japanese Buddhist priests coined the word "baka" "fool" from Sanskrit. Modern reference works give two possible Sanskrit sources for the word, "moha" (transcribed 慕何) "foolish" and "mahallaka" (摩訶羅) "stupid". Sanskrit "moha" मोह means "bewilderment, loss of consciousness, delusion, folly" and comes from the root "muh" "bewildered, perplexed, confused". Sanskrit "mahallaka" means "senile, feeble minded, stupid, decrepit" and comes from "mūrkha" मोह "dull, stupid, foolish, inexperienced; fool". Other proposed etymologies for "baka" are