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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish نعلچه (nalça), from Persian نعلچه (na'lče), Persian diminutive of Arabic نَعْل (naʕl, “horseshoe”).
Noun
nalça (definite accusative nalçayı, plural nalçalar)
- steel-toe boot
Derived terms
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نعلچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1280
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nalça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN