صالسه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Italian salsa. Nişanyan considers modern Turkish salsa a separate borrowing.

Noun

صالسه • (salsa)

1. sauce, gravy

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “salsa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صالسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1160