بلوک

See also: بلوك and پلوک

Pashto

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing, cognate to Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük, “part, fraction; squadron”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluk/

Noun

بلوک • (bluk) m

1. platoon
2. group of people

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chagatai بولك (bölük), cognate to Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük, “part, fraction; squadron”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bu.ˈluːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.lúk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bo.lúːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.lúk]

Readings
Classical reading?	bulūk
Dari reading?	bulūk
Iranian reading?	boluk
Tajik reading?	buluk

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

1. cluster of villages or towns constituting a district under a province (ولایت) (pl. ـات)
2. crowd, throng (pl. ـان)

Etymology 2

Unknown; similar meaning is shared by بکوک (bokuk, “cup of wine; target for arrows”), بلخ (balx, “wine container”), Middle Armenian բղուղ (bġuġ, “jar”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bu.ˈluːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.lúk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bo.lúːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.lúk]

Readings
Classical reading?	bulūk
Dari reading?	bulūk
Iranian reading?	boluk
Tajik reading?	buluk

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

1. cup of wine
2. target for arrows

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 323–326, Nr. 772
• Jazayery, Mohammad Ali (1966) “Western Influence in Contemporary Persian: A General View”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[2], volume 29, number 1, →DOI, page 89
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بلوک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 262a