باطمان

Ottoman Turkish

Batman province

Etymology

Replaced historical ایلوح (iluh) (from Northern Kurdish Êlih, a variation of eylo (“eagle”) according to Nişanyan), from the name of the local Batman River, which is a preserved and earlier version of Northern Kurdish Mala Badî (“House of Badh”) (compare the Malabadi Bridge, which is over this river). Ultimately from the name of the Marwanid House of Badh ibn Dustak. Equivalent to baz + mal.

Proper noun

باطمان • (batman)

1. Batman (a city, district, and province in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey)

   Synonym: ایلوح (iluh) (historical)

Descendants

• Turkish: Batman

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Batman”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Batman”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 93