alacha

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately of Turkic origin: compare Ottoman Turkish آلاجه (alaca), Azerbaijani alaca (“multi-colored”). Also from Turkic: Persian الاچه (alâča), Russian алача́ (alačá), аладжа́ (aladžá).

Noun

alacha (countable and uncountable, plural alachas)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of cotton cloth from India.

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 520, page 102
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