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), Oriya ବତକ (bôtôkô), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /bət̪.t̪əx/, [bət̪̚.t̪əx], /bət̪.t̪əkʰ/, [bət̪̚.t̪əkʰ]
Noun
बत्तख़ • (battax) f (Urdu spelling بطخ)
- 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
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “bataḵẖ”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “बतख”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
- S. W. Fallon (1879), “बत्तख़”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “بطخ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page ur
- 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, OCLC 875051092