پتك
See also: پتک
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak, “beehive”), itself from Old Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak), a word deriving from an unattested Iranian source related to Sanskrit पेटक (peṭaka, “little basket, casket, box”).
Noun
پتك • (petek) (definite accusative پتكی (peteği), plural پتكلر (petekler))
- hive, beehive, a man-made structure, usually built from clay, in which bees are kept for their honey
- honeycomb, a substance made by bees from beeswax, which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae
Descendants
- Turkish: petek
Further reading
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- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979), “փեթակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 494b
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “پتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 388
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “petek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
- Dankoff, Robert (1995), Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 740, pages 146–147
- Eren, Hasan (1999), “petek”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language][1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 331a
- Foy, Karl (1904), “Azerbajğanische Studien mit einer Charakteristik des Südtürkischen. II”, in Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin. Zweite Abteilung, Westasiatische Studien (in German), volume 7, Berlin: Commissionsverlag von Georg Reimer, page 217
- Gayayan, Harutʻyun (1977), “Gorgagorcutʻyan meǰ kiraṙvoġ hayeren pʻoxaṙyal baṙer tʻurkʻerenum [Armenian Borrowings in Turkish, Used in Carpet Making]”, in Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri [Herald of the Social Sciences][2] (in Armenian), number 8, pages 91–92
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 316
- Kraelitz-Greifenhorst, Friedrich von (1911), “Armenische Lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Handes Amsorya[4], volume 25, numbers 4–5 (overall work in German and Armenian), Vienna, column 259
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “petek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438
- Tietze, Andreas (2021), “petek I, petek II”, in Emine Yılmaz and Nurettin Demir, editors, Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, volume IV, Ankara: Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, page 458
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Persian پتک (potk, “sledgehammer”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (potk, “sledgehammer”).
Noun
پتك • (petk) (definite accusative پتكی (petği), plural پتكلر (petkler))
- sledgehammer, a hammer that consists of a heavy, broad and flat block of metal attached to a handle
- Synonym: واریوس (varyos)
Further reading
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- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Malleus”, 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[6], Vienna, columns 993-994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[7], Vienna, column 708
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438