بالطه

Ottoman Turkish

بالطه

Alternative forms

• بالته (balta), بلطه (balta)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”); cognate with Azerbaijani balta, Bashkir балта (balta), Chuvash пуртӑ (purt̬ă), Kazakh балта (balta), Kyrgyz балта (balta), Southern Altai малта (malta), Tatar балта (balta), Turkmen palta, Uyghur پالتا (palta) and Uzbek bolta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑl.tɑ/

Noun

بالطه • (balta)

1. axe, hatchet, a tool for felling trees or chopping wood

   Synonyms: تبر (teber), فاس (fas), مكشاح (mikşah)

2. battle axe, an ancient military weapon in the form of an axe

   Synonyms: تبر (teber), فاس (fas)

Derived terms

• بالطه باش (balta baş, “kind of ship”)
• بالطه‌جی (baltacı, “halberdier”)
• بالطه‌لامق (baltalamak, “to axe”)
• بالطه‌لق (baltalık, “copse, coppice”)
• بالطه‌لی (baltalı, “soldier armed with an axe”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: balta
• → Arabic: بَلْطة (balṭa)
• → Armenian: պալթա (paltʻa)
• → Bulgarian: балти́я (baltíja), балта́ (baltá)
• → Greek: μπαλτάς (baltás)
• → Ladino: balta
• → Romanian: baltag
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: bȃlta

  Cyrillic script: ба̑лта

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securis”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1530
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 683
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “balta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 382