كوسبه

Ottoman Turkish

كوسبه

Alternative forms

• كزبه (kezbe)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian کسبه (kusba). See Arabic كُسْبَة (kusba) for more.

Noun

كوسبه • (küsbe)

1. oil cake, the solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil

Descendants

• Turkish: küspe
• → Armenian: քիւսպէ (kʻiwspē)
• → Bulgarian: кюспе́ (kjuspé)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “küspe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2908
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوسبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1053
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “küspe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوسبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1593