سلستره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian Силистра (Silistra).

Proper noun

سلستره • (silistre)

1. Silistra (a city in Bulgaria)

Descendants

• Turkish: Silistre

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Silistria”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1556
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Silistra”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)