پتك

See also: پتک

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak, “beehive”), itself from Old Armenian փեթակ (pʻetʻak), a word deriving from an unattested Iranian source related to Sanskrit पेटक (peṭaka, “little basket, casket, box”).

Noun

پتك • (petek) (definite accusative پتكی (peteği), plural پتكلر (petekler))

1. hive, beehive, a man-made structure, usually built from clay, in which bees are kept for their honey

   Synonyms: قوغان (koğan), كندو (gendu)

2. honeycomb, a substance made by bees from beeswax, which has exagonal cells to hold their larvae

   Synonym: كومج (gümec)

Descendants

• Turkish: petek

Further reading

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• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փեթակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 494b
• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 388
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “petek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 316
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “petek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian پتک (potk, “sledgehammer”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (potk, “sledgehammer”).

Noun

پتك • (petk) (definite accusative پتكی (petği), plural پتكلر (petkler))

1. sledgehammer, a hammer that consists of a heavy, broad and flat block of metal attached to a handle

   Synonym: واریوس (varyos)

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Malleus”, 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^[3], Vienna, columns 993-994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 708
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 438