çiriş

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”)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʃiˈɾiʃ/

Etymology

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

Concepts

cement

Synonyms

kola

tutkal

zamk

Translations

colle

شِرَاس

Kleister

şîrêz