salça

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالچه‎ (salça, “sauce, gravy”), from Greek σάλτσα (sáltsa), from Italian salsa.

Noun

salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)

sauce, gravy
tomato sauce

See also

صالسه‎ (salsa) (direct borrowing from Italian, now obsolete)
salsa (borrowing from Spanish)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) , “صالچه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 750
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) , “salça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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