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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak, “beehive”), itself from Old Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak), a word deriving from an unattested Iranian source related to Sanskrit पेटक (peṭaka, “little basket, casket, box”).
Noun
پتك • (petek)
- hive, beehive, a man-made structure, usually built from clay, in which bees are kept for their honey
- Synonym: قوغان (koğan)
- honeycomb, a substance made by bees from beeswax, which has exagonal cells to hold their larvae
- Synonym: كومج (gümec)
Descendants
Further reading
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- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փեթակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 494b
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “petek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 316
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “petek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Persian پتک (potk, “sledgehammer”), itself from Middle Persian (potk, “sledgehammer”).
Noun
پتك • (petk)
- sledgehammer, a hammer that consists of a heavy, broad and flat block of metal attached to a handle
- Synonym: واریوس (varyos)
Further reading
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- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus”, 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, Vienna, columns 993-994
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 708
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438