خشیل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian խաշիլ (xašil).

Noun

خشیل • (haşıl) (definite accusative خشیلی (haşılı), plural خشیللر (haşıllar))

  1. dressing, kind of gum, starch, or similar substance used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics

Descendants

  • Turkish: haşıl

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973), “խարշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 347b
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “haşıl2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1893
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995), Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 229, pages 59–60
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gluten textorum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 659
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خشیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 850