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Telugu
Etymology
From Portuguese estirar (“stretch out”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ఇస్త్రీ • (istrī) n (plural ఇస్త్రీలు)
- iron for pressing clothes.
References
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479