صو مرمری
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From صو (su, “water”) + مرمر (mermer, “marble”).
Noun
[edit]- alabaster, a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally
- Synonym: قایماق طاشی (kaymak taşı)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: su mermeri
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مرمر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 753
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “su mermeri”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4339
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صو مرمری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صو مرمری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1188