بالدر

Ottoman Turkish

بالدر

Alternative forms

• بالدیر (baldır)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baltïr (“calf of leg”); cognate with Azerbaijani baldır, Kazakh балтыр (baltyr), Tatar балдыр (baldır) and Uzbek boldir.

Noun

بالدر • (baldır)

1. calf, the fleshy part at the back of the leg, below the knee

Derived terms

• بالدر سݣیری (baldır siñiri, “tendon of the calf”)
• بالدر كمیكی (baldır kemiği, “calf bone, fibula”)
• بالدراق (baldırak, “the lower part of the trousers”)
• بالدری قره (baldırı kara, “maidenhair fern”)
• بالدری چپلاق (baldırı çıplak, “brawler, rowdy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: baldır
• → Armenian: պալտըր (paltər)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baldır4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 450
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بالدر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 105a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالدیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sura”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1636
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالدر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 684
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “baldır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالدر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334