نشاسته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian نشاسته (nešâste).

Noun

نشاسته • (nişasta)

1. starch from wheat used for food

Descendants

• Turkish: nişasta
• → Armenian: նիշաստա (nišasta), նշաստա (nšasta)

See also

• قولا (kola, “starch for clothes”)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nişasta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3553
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نشاسته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1274
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amylum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 60
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نشاسته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5180
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nişasta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نشاسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2084