قایماق طاشی

Ottoman Turkish

قایماق طاشی

Etymology

From قایماق (kaymak, “kaymak, clotted cream”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).

Noun

قایماق طاشی • (kaymak taşı)

1. alabaster, a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally

   Synonym: صو مرمری (su mermeri)

Descendants

• Turkish: kaymak taşı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaymak taşı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2498
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قایماق طاشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1222