salça

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)

1. sauce, gravy
2. 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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 750
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salça”, in Nişanyan Sözlük