salça

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالچه (salça, “sauce, gravy”), from Greek σάλτσα (sáltsa), from Italian salsa. Doublet of salsa, from Spanish.

Noun

salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)

1. (dated) sauce, gravy

   Synonym: sos

2. dried and fermented concentrate of pepper or tomato paste

See also

• صالسه (salsa) (direct borrowing from Italian, now obsolete)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صالچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 750
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük