سوپیه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French sous-pied (“understrap”), from sous (“under”) + pied (“foot”).
Noun
[edit]سوپیه • (supiye) (definite accusative سوپیهیی (supiyeyi), plural سوپیهلر (supiyeler))
- understrap, a trowsers-strap passing under the foot
Further reading
[edit]- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “soupié”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 349
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوپیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1087