قایماق طاشی
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From قایماق (kaymak, “kaymak, clotted cream”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).
Noun
[edit]- alabaster, a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally
- Synonym: صو مرمری (su mermeri)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: kaymak taşı
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymak taşı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماق طاشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1222