بالطه‌لق

Ottoman Turkish

بالطه‌لق

Etymology

From بالطه (balta, “axe, hatchet”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk).

Noun

بالطه‌لق • (baltalık)

1. copse, coppice, an area of woodland managed by the periodic cutting of tree stems near ground level

Descendants

• Turkish: baltalık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baltalık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 456
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالطه‌لق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247