salça

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالچه (salça, “sauce, gravy”), from Greek σάλτσα (sáltsa), from Italian salsa.

Noun

salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)

sauce, gravy
tomato sauce

See also

صالسه (salsa) (direct borrowing from Italian, now obsolete)
salsa (borrowing from Spanish)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صالچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 750
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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