lostra
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لوسترو (lostro, lustro, “shoe polish”), from Italian lustro (“shine, gloss”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: los‧tra
Noun edit
lostra (definite accusative lostrayı, plural lostralar)
- blacking, shoe polish, a product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine
- Synonym: ayakkabı boyama
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Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lostra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lostra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük