بطخ

Hypercorrection of Classical Persian بطک‎ (bat̤ak, “duck”), a Wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة‎ (baṭṭa), بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ) (which itself is from Classical Persian بت‎ (bat), perhaps with the diminutive suffix ـه‎ (-a)), and Old Armenian բադ (bad), among others. Doublet of بَط‎ (baṭ) and بدک‎ (badak).

Cognate with Punjabi ਬੱਤਕ (battak), ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax) / بَطَّخ‎ (bat̤t̤ax), Gujarati બતક (batak), Sindhi بَدَڪَ‎ (badaka) / Sindhi बदक (badaka), Marathi बदक (badak), Konkani बदक (badak), Oriya ବତକ (bôtôkô), Kashmiri بَطُخ‎ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.t̪ː.əx/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /bə.t̪ː.əx/

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• Rhymes: -əx

بَطَّخ • (bat̤t̤ax) f (Hindi spelling बत्तख़)

1. duck – alternative form of بَط‎ (bat̤, “(aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)”)
   • 1926, خزائن الادویہ – Khazain-ul-Adviya, volume 2, page 282:

     ‏بطخ مشہور ہکھیر و ہے در قسم کا ہوتا ہے چھوٹا اور بڑا ، چھوٹی بطخ کو چنیا بدک کہتے ہیں‎

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• S. W. Fallon (1879), “بطخ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• “بطخ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بطخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بطخ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “بطخ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• John Shakespear (1834), “بطخ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC