پلیت

Ottoman Turkish

پلیت

Alternative forms

• پلید (pelid)

Etymology

From a corruption of Arabic بَلُّوط (ballūṭ, “oak; acorn”), itself from Aramaic בְּלוּטָא (bəllūṭā, ballūṭā, “oak; acorn”).

Noun

پلیت • (pelit) (definite accusative پلیدی (pelidi), plural پلیتلر (pelitler))

1. acorn, the nut-like fruit of the oak, especially of the valonia oak

   Synonym: پالاموت (palamut)

Derived terms

• پلیت آغاجی (pelit ağacı, “valonia oak”)
• پلیت غربی (pelit garbı, “valonia oak”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pelit
• → Ladino: pelit

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پلیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 408
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pelit1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3815
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پلیت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 126b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Glans”, 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, column 654
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلیت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 888
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pelit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 452