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Of the same origin as Old Armenianբալախ(balax, “Salicornia”), Armenianբալախ(balax, “Salicornia; (in dialects) the name of various grasses”). The direction of borrowing is uncertain. Klimov / Xalilov derive the Georgian from Armenian, whereas Ačaṙean takes the derivation in the opposite direction.
The same word is found in other languages of the region, including Turkish, Azeri and Kurdish, in most cases borrowed from Armenian (see in բալախ(balax)), but in case of Svanბალა̈ხ(baläx, “plant”), Tsakhurбалах(balaχ, “a kind of leafless grass growing on northern slopes of mountains”) and probably Azerbaijanibalax borrowed directly from Georgian.
→ Tsakhur: балах(balaχ, “a kind of leafless grass growing on northern slopes of mountains”)
References
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բալախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 387–388
Klimov, G. A., Xalilov, M. Š. (2003) Словарь кавказских языков. Сопоставление основной лексики [Dictionary of Caucasian Languages. A comparison of the Basic Vocabulary] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, →ISBN, pages 218, 221
Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “ბალახი”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 44
Čubinov, David (1887) “ბალახი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 94
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