salep

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noun
  1. a starchy, demulcent drug or foodstuff consisting of the dried tubers of certain orchids.

Origin of salep

1
1730–40; <Turkish salep<dialectal Arabic saḥlab, perhaps shortened variant of Arabic khusā al-thaʿlab fox's testicles; cf. saloop

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salep

/ (ˈsælɛp) /


noun
  1. the dried ground starchy tubers of various orchids, used for food and formerly as drugs

Origin of salep

1
C18: via French and Turkish from Arabic sahlab, shortened from khusy ath-tha`lab, literally: fox's testicles, name of an orchid

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