баткак
Southern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bat-gak (“sticky mud, bog”), from *bat- (“to sink, get bogged/stuck in mud”). Cognate withBashkir батҡаҡ (batqaq),Kyrgyz баткак (batqaq),Kazakh батпақ (batpaq),Shor патқақ (patqaq),Karachay-Balkar батхакъ (batxaq, “clay, mud”),Uzbek botqoq,Uyghur پاتقاق (patqaq, “sticky mud, bog”),Turkmen batga (“swamp, bog”),Turkish batak (“swamp, bog”), etc.
Noun
баткак • (batkak)
- swamp, marsh
References
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “баткак”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ, M.: OGIZ, →ISBN