salep
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salep
- /ˈsæləp/ US, UK
Sounds like Salop
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French salep, borrowed from Turkish salep, from Ottoman Turkish سالپ (sālep), borrowed from Arabic سَحْلَب (saḥlab), from خُصَى الثَعْلَب (ḵuṣā aṯ-ṯaʕlab), from خُصَى (ḵuṣā) + ثَعْلَب (ṯaʕlab), literally “fox testicles”.
noun saleps · saleb · saloop · salop
- A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula). Where finally the draining of marſhy grounds can not be effected at a reſponſible expence, ſome plants may perhaps be cultivated with profit to the cultivator; as in ſome ſituations the feſtica fluitans, floating feſcue, callitriche, ſtar-graſs; or in others the orchis for the purpoſe of making ſalo
- Alternative form of saloop (“aromatic drink originally made with salep”).
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noun a starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as early-purple orchids
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title = {salep},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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