بالطه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بالته (balta), بلطه (balta)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”).

cognates

Cognate with Azerbaijani balta, Bashkir балта (balta), Chuvash пуртӑ (purt̬ă), Kazakh балта (balta), Kyrgyz балта (balta), Southern Altai малта (malta), Tatar балта (balta), Turkmen palta, Uyghur پالتا (palta) and Uzbek bolta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑɫˈtɑ/

Noun

بالطه • (balta)

axe, hatchet
Synonyms: تبر (teber), فاس (fas), مكشاح (mikşah)
battle axe
Synonyms: تبر (teber), فاس (fas)

Derived terms

بالطه باش (balta baş, “kind of ship”)
بالطه‌جی (baltacı, “halberdier”)
بالطه‌لامق (baltalamak, “to axe”)
بالطه‌لق (baltalık, “copse, coppice”)
بالطه‌لی (baltalı, “soldier armed with an axe”)

Descendants

Turkish: balta
→ Albanian: balltje
→ Arabic: بَلْطة (balṭa)
→ Armenian: պալթա (paltʻa)
→ Bulgarian: балти́я (baltíja), балта́ (baltá)
→ Greek: μπαλτάς (baltás)
→ Ladino: balta
→ Romanian: baltag
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Latin script: bȃlta

Cyrillic script: ба̑лта

Further reading

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Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “balta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بالطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Securis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1530
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بالته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 683
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “balta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بالطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 382