قالیه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic قِلْي (qily, “potash”).
Noun
قالیه • (kalya)
- potash, the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plants
Derived terms
- قالیه اوتی (kalya otu, “prickly saltwort”)
- قالیه طوزی (kalya tuzu, “carbonate of potash”)
Descendants
- Turkish: kalye
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kalye1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قالیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 935
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kalye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قالیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425