شلته
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian چلته (čelte).
Noun
شلته • (şilte)
- thin mattress spread upon a thicker mattress for softness
- thin quilt spread on a sofa as a soft seat
Descendants
- Turkish: şilte
- → Armenian: շիլթե (šiltʿe), շլթա (šltʿa)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “şilte1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4484
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “شلته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 732
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şilte”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شلته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1134