salt: · one of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid · ellipsis of garam dapur (“table salt”)
çekim: çoğul garam-garam
köken: From Malay garam, from Classical Malay garam (“table salt”), from Proto-Malayic *garəm (“grain”). The chemistry sense is a semantic loan from Dutch zout (“salt”).