اسكرلت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian سقرلات (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”).

Noun

اسكرلت • (iskerlet)

1. scarlet or old purple Venetian broadcloth

Descendants

• Turkish: iskerlet

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسكرلت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, columns 217–218
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسكرلت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111