"Şelte" meaning in Turkish

See Şelte in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From one of the clans of Turks Zazamon, in Zaza, it means binding or tidying up something. Possibly from şelte, because the original family made these women clothes and worked at textile, or from Georgian [Term?] (“bony, short and brave”). Etymology templates: {{der|tr|ka||t=bony, short and brave}} Georgian [Term?] (“bony, short and brave”) Head templates: {{head|tr|proper noun|head=}} Şelte, {{tr-proper noun}} Şelte
  1. a surname
    Sense id: en-Şelte-tr-name-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): Turkish surnames
  2. A river in Gaziantep, Turkey. Categories (place): Rivers
    Sense id: en-Şelte-tr-name-THOLupdr Disambiguation of Rivers: 26 74 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Turkish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 84 Disambiguation of Turkish entries with incorrect language header: 24 76
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          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "tr",
          "name": "Rivers",
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          "parents": [
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            "Places",
            "Ecosystems",
            "Landforms",
            "Water",
            "Names",
            "Ecology",
            "Earth",
            "Liquids",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Biology",
            "Nature",
            "Matter",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Sciences",
            "Chemistry",
            "Lemmas"
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      "glosses": [
        "A river in Gaziantep, Turkey."
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