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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian بالش (bāliš, “pillow”).
Noun
بالش • (baliş)
- bolster, pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head in bed
- Synonym: یاصدق (yasdık)
Derived terms
- بالشچه (balişçe, “small pillow”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baliş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 454
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “baliş”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 86
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvinar”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1406
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 685
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (bʾlšn'), from Proto-Iranian *barjíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰarȷ́ʰíš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-; see there for further information.
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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bāliš
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| Dari reading?
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bāliš
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| Iranian reading?
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bâleš
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| Tajik reading?
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boliš
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Noun
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بالش
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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болиш
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بالش • (bâleš) (plural بالشها (bâleš-hâ))
- pillow, cushion
- Synonym: کوسن (kusan)
Descendants
Further reading
Urdu
Pronunciation
Noun
بالِش • (bāliś) m (Hindi spelling बालिश)
- pillow, cushion
- Synonyms: سرہانہ (sirhāna), تکیہ (takiya), مسند (masnad)