بطانیه

Ottoman Turkish

بطانیه

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَطَّانِيَّة (baṭṭāniyya, “blanket”).

Noun

بطانیه • (battaniye)

1. blanket, heavy, loosely woven fabric used for warmth while sleeping or resting

Descendants

• Turkish: battaniye
• → Albanian: batanije
• → Greek: μπατανία (batanía)
• → Laz: ბატტანიჲე (baťťaniye), ბატანიჲე (baťaniye), ბატანიე (baťanie) — alternative spelling

Further reading

• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “بطانیه”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954)‎^[1], Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “battaniye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 507