بلوک

See also: بلوك and پلوک

Pashto

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing, cognate to Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük, “part, fraction; squadron”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bluk/

Noun

بلوک • (bluk) m

  1. platoon
  2. group of people

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chagatai بولك (bölük), cognate to Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük, “part, fraction; squadron”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bu.lúk]

Readings
Classical reading? bulūk
Dari reading? bulūk
Iranian reading? boluk
Tajik reading? buluk

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

  1. cluster of villages or towns constituting a district under a province (ولایت) (pl. ـات)
  2. crowd, throng (pl. ـان)

Etymology 2

Unknown; similar meaning is shared by بکوک (bokuk, “cup of wine; target for arrows”), بلخ (balx, “wine container”), Middle Armenian բղուղ (bġuġ, “jar”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bʊ.lúːk]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bu.lúk]

Readings
Classical reading? bulūk
Dari reading? bulūk
Iranian reading? boluk
Tajik reading? buluk

Noun

بلوک • (boluk)

  1. cup of wine
  2. target for arrows

References
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 323–326, Nr. 772
  • Jazayery, Mohammad Ali (1966) “Western Influence in Contemporary Persian: A General View”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎, volume 29, number 1, →DOI, page 89
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بلوک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 262a
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