سوپیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sous-pied (“understrap”), from sous (“under”) + pied (“foot”).

Noun

سوپیه • (supiye) (definite accusative سوپیه‌یی (supiyeyi), plural سوپیه‌لر (supiyeler))

1. understrap, a trowsers-strap passing under the foot

Further reading

• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “soupié”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 349
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوپیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1087