palaḫ

See also: palah

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Armenian բալախ (balax), dialectal փալախ (pʿalax).

Noun

palaḫ

  1. (dialectal, Erciş, Arapgir) cowtail plant with thin hard leaves (probably a plant of the genus Verbascum)
  2. (dialectal, Artvin) leaf
  3. (dialectal, Rize) tender fresh grass that grows after the hay has been mown (it is dried and fed to newborn animals)

References
  • “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382a
  • “palak (IV)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382b
  • “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 12, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1982, page 4633b
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 41, page 24
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65
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