बत्तख़

See also: बत्तख

Hindi

Alternative forms

• बत्तख (battakh), बत्तक (battak), बतख़ (batax), बतख (batakh), बतक (batak)

Etymology

Somehow derived from Classical Persian بت (bat, “duck”) (perhaps with the diminutive suffix ـه (-a)), a Wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة (baṭṭa), بَطّ (baṭṭ), Old Armenian բադ (bad), among others.

Cognate with Punjabi ਬਤਕ (batak), ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax), Gujarati બતક (batak), Sindhi بَدَڪَ (badaka) / Sindhi बदक (badaka), Marathi बदक (badak), Konkani बदक (badak), Odia ବତକ (bataka), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi), Malayalam വാത്ത (vātta).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bət̪.t̪əx/, [bɐt̪̚.t̪ɐx], /bət̪.t̪əkʰ/, [bɐt̪̚.t̪ɐkʰ]

Noun

बत्तख़ • (battax) f (Urdu spelling بطخ)

1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)

   बत्तख़ें ज़्यादातर मछली खाती हैं।

   battaxẽ zyādātar machlī khātī ha͠i.

   Ducks generally eat fish.

Declension

Declension of बत्तख़ (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ें battaxẽ
oblique	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ों battaxõ
vocative	बत्तख़ battax	बत्तख़ो battaxo

Further reading

• Bahri, Caturvedi, Dasa-Hindi (2022) “बतख”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Hindi Dictionaries]
• John Shakespear (1834) “بطخ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC