بطخ

Hypercorrection of Classical Persian بطک (bat̤ak, “duck”), a Wanderwort related to Arabic بَطَّة (baṭṭa), بَطّ (baṭṭ) (which itself is from Classical Persian بت (bat), perhaps with the diminutive suffix ـه (-a)), and Old Armenian բադ (bad), among others. Doublet of بَط (baṭ) and بدک (badak).

Cognate with Punjabi ਬੱਤਕ (battak), ਬੱਤਖ਼ (battax) / بَطَّخ (bat̤t̤ax), Gujarati બતક (batak), Sindhi بَدَڪَ (badaka) / Sindhi बदक (badaka), Marathi बदक (badak), Konkani बदक (badak), Odia ବତକ (bataka), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), and perhaps in the Dravidian languages, Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi), Malayalam വാത്ത (vātta).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.t̪ː.əx/

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• Rhymes: -əx

بَطَّخ • (battax) f (Hindi spelling बत्तख़)

1. duck – alternative form of بَط (bat̤, “(aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)”)
   • 1926, خزائن الادویہ [Khazain-ul-Adviya], volume 2, page 282:

     بطخ مشہور ہکھیر و ہے در قسم کا ہوتا ہے چھوٹا اور بڑا ، چھوٹی بطخ کو چنیا بدک کہتے ہیں

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• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بطخ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]