قالیه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• գալեա (kalya), գալեէ (kalye)

Etymology

From Arabic قِلْي (qily, “potash”).

Noun

قالیه • (kalya)

1. potash, the water-soluble part of the ash formed by burning plants

Derived terms

• قالیه اوتی (kalya otu, “prickly saltwort”)
• قالیه طوزی (kalya tuzu, “carbonate of potash”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kalye

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalye1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2365
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 935
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قالیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425