باتاق

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

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.

باتاق • (batak)

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

   Synonym: خلاش‎ (hılaş)

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

• Turkish: batak
• → Bulgarian: бата́к (baták)
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պաթախ (patʿax), (Van) բաթլաղ (batʿlał), (Nor Nakhichevan) պաթխախ (patʿxax)

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