salep

Borrowed from French salep, from Turkish salep, from Arabic سَحْلَب (saḥlab, “type of orchid”).[1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Arabic word is said to be a contraction of خُصَى الثَعْلَب (ḵuṣā aṯ-ṯaʕlab, “fox testicles”) (الثَعْلَب (aṯ-ṯaʕlab, “fox”) + خُصًى (ḵuṣan, “testicles”)), referring to the testicle-like root tubers.[2]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæləp/
• Hyphenation: sa‧lep

salep (countable and uncountable, plural saleps)

1. A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula).
   • 1800, Erasmus Darwin, “Sect. XI. Of Draining and Watering Lands.”, in Phytologia: Or The Philosophy of Agricuture and Gardening. With the Theory of Draining Morasses and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough, Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street, →OCLC, section XI.2.4.5, page 245:

     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 ſaloop by drying the peeled roots in an oven.

   • 2014 April 5, “Quite interesting: A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week; QI orchids you not”, in The Daily Telegraph (Weekend), page W22:

     The tubers of one [orchid] species, Orchis mascula, produce a flour called salep, which was made into a drink known as "saloop" in 18th-century London, as an alternative to coffee (Charles Lamb thought it the ideal breakfast for chimney sweeps). Salep is a Turkish word with an even more precise derivation (it's from the Arabic for "fox's testicles"). Despite this, the Turks still use it to make a strange elastic ice cream, eaten with a knife and fork, which carries a pungent aftertaste compared by one commentator to the scent of "goats on a rainy day". Salep ice cream is so popular that O. mascula is now a protected species in Turkey.

2. Alternative form of saloop (“aromatic drink originally made with salep”)

• saleb, saloop, salop

• salep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Borrowed from Turkish salep, from earlier sahlep, from Ottoman Turkish سحلب (sahleb), from Arabic خُصَى الثَعْلَب (ḵuṣā aṯ-ṯaʕlab, “fox testicles”).

• IPA^(key): /sa.lɛp/

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salep m (plural saleps)

1. salep

• “salep”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch zalf, from Middle Dutch salve, from Old Dutch salva, from Proto-Germanic *salbō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaləp̚]
• Hyphenation: sa‧lêp

salep (plural salep-salep, first-person possessive salepku, second-person possessive salepmu, third-person possessive salepnya)

1. ointment.

• salap (Standard Malay)

• “salep” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سالب (saleb), سحلب (sahleb), from Arabic خُصَى الثَعْلَب (ḵuṣā aṯ-ṯaʕlab, “fox testicles”).

salep n (plural salepuri)

1. salep

• sahlep

Salep plant.

Salep drink.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سالپ (sālep, “the plant and root of orchis mascula, the drink made from the powdered root”),[1] from Arabic خُصْيَة الثَعْلَب (ḵuṣya(t) aṯ-ṯaʕlab, “fox's testicle”), from خُصْيَة (ḵuṣya, “testicle”) +‎ ثَعْلَب (ṯaʕlab, “fox”).[2]

• IPA^(key): /saːˈlep/
• Hyphenation: sa‧lep

salep (definite accusative salebi, plural salepler)

1. (botany) Orchis mascula, early purple orchid, early spring orchis.
2. The white powder acquired by grinding the tubers of this plant.
3. The drink made by mixing the powder with sweetened milk or water.

• “salep”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “salep”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4038