बत्तख़

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See also: बत्तख

Hindi

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Somehow derived from Classical Persian (bat, “duck”) (perhaps with the diminutive suffix (-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), Odia ବତକ (bôtôkô), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bət̪.t̪əx/, , /bət̪.t̪əkʰ/,

Noun

बत्तख़ • (battax) f (Urdu spelling بطخ)

duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
बत्तख़ें ज़्यादातर मछली खाती हैं।
battaxẽ zyādātar machlī khātī ha͠i.
Ducks generally eat fish.

Declension

Declension of बत्तख़ (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ें battaxẽ
oblique	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ों battaxõ
vocative	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ो battaxo

Further reading

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “bataḵẖ”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बतख”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
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2=بَط؟ Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.S. W. Fallon (1879) “बत्तख़”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.

Platts, John T. (1884) “بطخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page ur
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

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