salça

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صالچه (salça, “sauce, gravy”), from Greek σάλτσα (sáltsa), from Italian salsa. Doublet of sos and salsa, from Vulgar Latin.

Noun

salça (definite accusative salçayı, plural salçalar)

  1. (dated) sauce, gravy
    Synonym: sos
  2. dried and fermented concentrate of pepper or tomato paste

Notes

For pastes other than tomato or pepper paste, ezme is used (cf. zeytin ezmesi, sarımsak ezmesi)

See also

  • صالسه (salsa) (direct borrowing from Italian, now obsolete)

References

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