قایماق طاشی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom قایماق (kaymak, “kaymak, clotted cream”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).
Noun
edit- alabaster, a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally
- Synonym: صو مرمری (su mermeri)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: kaymak taşı
Further reading
edit- 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