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

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