çiriş

Meaning

1. (usually) paste, cement, size, any mixture used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc
2. (specifically) shoemaker's and bookbinder's paste, obtained from the powdered root of a variety of asphodel
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) ellipsis of çiriş otu (“asphodel”)

Concepts

cement

Synonyms

kola

tutkal

zamk

Translations

colle

شِرَاس

Kleister

şîrêz

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʃiˈɾiʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چریش (çiriş, “adhesive paste”), from Classical Persian سریش (seriš, “lime, glue”).