پالک

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀧𑀸𑀮𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀸 (pālakkā), from Sanskrit पालक्या (pālakyā). Cognate with Gujarati પાલક (pālak).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑː.lək/

پالَک • (pālak) m (Hindi spelling पालक)

1. spinach (plant or food)

• → Dari: پَالَک (pālak)
• → English: palak
• → Pashto: پالک (pālak)
• → Ushojo: پالک

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “پالک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 329
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پالك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 219
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پالک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 145
• “پالک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “پالک”, 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, page 364
• “پالک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

From Urdu پالک (pālak).

پالک (pālek)

1. spinach