شلته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian چلته (čelte).

Noun

شلته • (şilte)

1. thin mattress spread upon a thicker mattress for softness
2. thin quilt spread on a sofa as a soft seat

Descendants

• Turkish: şilte
• → Armenian: շիլթե (šiltʻe), շլթա (šltʻa)
• → Egyptian Arabic: شَلْتَة
• → Greek: σιλτής (siltís)
  • → Romanian: saltea

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şilte1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4484
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شلته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 732
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şilte”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شلته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1134