لوسترو
Ottoman Turkish
لوسترو
Alternative forms
- لوستره (lostra)
Noun
لوسترو • (lustro, lostro)
- blacking, shoe polish, a product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine
Derived terms
- لوستروجی (lustrocu, lostrocu, “shoeshiner”)
Descendants
- Turkish: lostra
- → Armenian: լուստռա (lustṙa)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lostra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لوسترو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
- Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “lostra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لوسترو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645
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