قالیقوت
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French calicot, from the city of Calicut, in India.
Noun
قالیقوت • (kalikot)
- calico, a kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton
Further reading
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “calicot”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 351
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قالیقوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425