बत्तख़

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Etymology

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), Odia ବତକ (bataka), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi), Malayalam വാത്ത (vātta).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

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

  • Bahri, Caturvedi, Dasa-Hindi (2022) “बतख”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Hindi Dictionaries]
  • 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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