پركال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French percale, itself from Persian (pargâle, “patch; percale”).

Noun

پركال • (perkal)

percale, a fabric made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing

Descendants

Turkish: perkal

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “perkal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3829
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پركال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 443

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