لوسترو
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- لوستره (lostra)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian lustro (“shine, gloss”).
Noun[edit]
لوسترو • (lustro, lostro)
- blacking, shoe polish, a product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine
Derived terms[edit]
- لوستروجی (lustrocu, lostrocu, “shoeshiner”)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lostra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوسترو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lostra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوسترو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645