قالیقوت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French calicot, from the city of Calicut, in India.

Noun

قالیقوت • (kalikot)

1. calico, a kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton

   Synonym: باصمه (basma)

Further reading

• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “calicot”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 351
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالیقوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425