ఇస్త్రీ

Telugu

Etymology

From Portuguese estirar (“stretch out”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ఇస్త్రీ • (istrī) n (plural ఇస్త్రీలు)

1. iron for pressing clothes.

References

• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479