salça
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Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish صالچه (salça, “sauce, gravy”), from Greek σάλτσα (sáltsa), from Italian salsa. Doublet of salsa, from Spanish.
Noun
[edit]salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)
- (dated) sauce, gravy
- Synonym: sos
- dried and fermented concentrate of pepper or tomato paste
See also
[edit]- صالسه (salsa) (direct borrowing from Italian, now obsolete)
References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صالچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 750
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük