بلوک

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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

platoon
group of people

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

cluster of villages or towns constituting a district under a province () (pl. )
crowd, throng (pl. )

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

cup of wine
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)‎ (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, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 262a

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