لوسترو

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • لوستره (lostra)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lustro (“shine, gloss”).

Noun

لوسترو • (lustro, lostro)

  1. blacking, shoe polish, a product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine

Derived terms
  • لوستروجی (lustrocu, lostrocu, “shoeshiner”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: lostra
  • → Armenian: լուստռա (lustṙa)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lostra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوسترو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 48
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lostra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوسترو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645
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