باتاق

Ottoman Turkish

باتاق

Alternative forms

• بتاق (batak), باتق (batak), بطاق (batak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”), from the same root of باتمق (batmak, “to sink”); cognate with Azerbaijani bataq, Bashkir батҡаҡ (batqaq), Chuvash путхах (puthah), Kazakh батпақ (batpaq), Kyrgyz баткак (batkak), Turkmen batga, Uyghur پاتقاق (patqaq) and Uzbek botqoq.

Noun

باتاق • (batak)

1. swamp, marsh, bog, quagmire, an area of low and wet land

   Synonym: خلاش (hilaş)

2. quicksand, wet sand that appears firm, but in which things readily sink
3. (figuratively) den of fraud or violence

Derived terms

• باتاقجی (batakçı, “fraudster”)
• باتاقخانه (batakhane, “gambling den”)
• باتاقلق (bataklık, “swampy place”)
• باتاقلی (bataklı, “swampy”)
• قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: batak
• → Bulgarian: бата́к (baták)
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պաթախ (patʻax), (Van) բաթլաղ (batʻlaġ), (Nor Nakhichevan) պաթխախ (patʻxax)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palus”, 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 1236
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باتاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 625
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315