बत्तख़

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

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 (bôtôkô), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi).

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

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.

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• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बतख”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
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• 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