See also: palah

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Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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)
  4. (dialectal, Hemşin) a kind of tufted grass

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References edit

  • 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 and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65