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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian نشاسته (nešâste).
Noun
نشاسته • (nişasta)
- starch from wheat used for food
Descendants
See also
- قولا (kola, “starch for clothes”)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişasta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشاسته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1274
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amylum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 60
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشاسته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5180
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nişasta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشاسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084