پركال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French percale, itself from Persian پرگاله (pargâle, “patch; percale”).

Noun

پركال • (perkal)

1. percale, a fabric made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing

Descendants

• Turkish: perkal

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “perkal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3829
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پركال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443