Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Chagatai بالتو (baltu), from Karakhanid بَلْدُو (baldu), from Proto-Turkic *baltu or *balto.[1][2] Cognates with Turkish balta.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

پالتا (palta) (plural پالتىلار (paltilar))

  1. axe, hatchet

Proper noun edit

پالتا (palta) (plural پالتىلار (paltilar))

  1. a male given name

References edit

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baltu: (balto:)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 333
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*baltu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading edit

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN