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Turkish
Etymology
From Armenian բալախ (balax), dialectal փալախ (pʻalax).
Noun
palaḫ
- (dialectal, Erciş, Arapgir) cowtail plant with thin hard leaves (probably a plant of the genus Verbascum)
- (dialectal, Artvin) leaf
- (dialectal, Rize) tender fresh grass that grows after the hay has been mown (it is dried and fed to newborn animals)
- (dialectal, Hemşin) a kind of tufted grass
References
- “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382a
- “palak (IV)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382b
- “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 12, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1982, page 4633b
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 41, page 24
- Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65