Salep

//ˈsæləp//

Synonyms for "salep"

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Translations

18 translations across 17 languages.

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Albanian

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  • salep noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Arabic

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  • سَحْلَب noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Armenian

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  • սալեպ noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Bulgarian

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  • сале́п noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 蘭莖粉 /兰茎粉 noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Georgian

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  • სალეპი noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Greek

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  • σαλέπι noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Hebrew

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  • סַחְלָב noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Japanese

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  • サレップ noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Korean

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  • 살렙 noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Macedonian

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  • салеп noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Polish

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  • salep noun (a starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as early-purple orchids)
  • salep noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Romanian

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  • salep noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Russian

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  • са́леп noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Spanish

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  • salep noun (a starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as early-purple orchids)

Turkish

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  • salep noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Ukrainian

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  • са́леп noun (aromatic drink originally made with salep)

Sample sentences

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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.

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In Turkey, Iran, and Syria salep is popular as a restorative and also as a provocative to amatory activity.

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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.

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