Where does “elbise fırçası” come from?

elbise fırçası (Turkish) comes from Turkish fırça, from Ottoman Turkish فرچه, from Byzantine Greek βρούτσα — brush.

elbise fırçası (Turkish): clothes-brush

Definitions

  1. clothes-brush

Ancestry of “elbise fırçası”, step by step

elbise fırçası traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish fırça

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishfırçabrush
2Ottoman Turkishفرچهbrush, oblong bristle implement for cleaning
3Byzantine Greekβρούτσαbrush

via Turkish elbise

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishelbisepiece of clothing, clothes
Every word from Byzantine Greek βρούτσα →Every word from Ottoman Turkish فرچه →Every word from Turkish fırça →
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