اسكرلت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ‎ (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”).

Noun

اسكرلت • (iskerlet)

scarlet or old purple Venetian broadcloth

Descendants

Turkish: iskerlet

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اسكرلت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 217–218
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اسكرلت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111

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