बत्तख़

• बत्तख (battakh), बत्तक (battak), बतख़ (batax), बतख (batakh), बतक (batak)

Somehow derived from Classical Persian بت‎ (bat, “duck”) (perhaps with the diminutive suffix ـه‎ (-a)), a Wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة‎ (baṭṭa), بَطّ‎ (baṭṭ), Old Armenian բադ (bad), among others.

Cognate with Punjabi ਬਤਕ (batak), ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax), 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).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bət̪.t̪əx/, [bət̪̚.t̪əx], /bət̪.t̪əkʰ/, [bət̪̚.t̪əkʰ]

बत्तख़ • (battax) f (Urdu spelling بطخ‎)

1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

   बत्तख़ें ज़्यादातर मछली खाती हैं।

   battaxẽ zyādātar machlī khātī ha͠i.

   Ducks generally eat fish.

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