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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From صو (su, “water”) + مرمر (mermer, “marble”).
Noun
صو مرمری • (su mermeri)
- alabaster, a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally
- Synonym: قایماق طاشی (kaymak taşı)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 753
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su mermeri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4339
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو مرمری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو مرمری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1188