palak

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See also: pal-ak and pałąk

English

Etymology

From Hindi पालक (pālak), from Sanskrit पालक्या (pālakyā).

Noun

palak (uncountable)

  1. (India, cooking) Spinach or similar greens (including Amaranthus species and Chenopodium album).

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian բալախ (balax), dialectal փալախ (pʻalax).

Noun

palak (definite accusative palağı, plural palaklar)

  1. (dialectal, Artvin) leaf
  2. (dialectal, Ahlat) a tender soft grass that grows in wet places
  3. (dialectal, Artvin) short grass that grows again after being mown
  4. (dialectal, Divriği) crop sown early that remains short and does not form ears
  5. (dialectal, Çemişgezek, Ağın, Şanlıurfa, Ankara) dry grass
  6. (dialectal, Ahlat) type of grass eaten by animals
  7. (dialectal, Ardanuç) time of crop to form ears
  8. (dialectal, Ovacık) dry grass

Declension

Inflection
Nominative palak
Definite accusative palağı
Singular Plural
Nominative palak palaklar
Definite accusative palağı palakları
Dative palağa palaklara
Locative palakta palaklarda
Ablative palaktan palaklardan
Genitive palağın palakların

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), (V)”, 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
  • 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
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