پتک

See also: پتك, تبك, and ببک

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (potk, “sledgehammer”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈputk/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊt̪k]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰʊt̪k]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰut̪k]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰot̪kʲ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰut̪k]

Readings
Classical reading^?	putk
Dari reading^?	putk
Iranian reading^?	potk
Tajik reading^?	putk

Noun

پتک • (potk) (plural پتک‌ها)

sledgehammer
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 830:
  هست آن آهن فقیر سخت کش
  زیر پتک و آتش است او سرخ و خوش
  hast ān āhan faqīr saxt kaš
  zēr putk u ātiš ast ō surx u xwaš
  That iron is the dervish who bears hardship (self-mortification):
  under the hammer and the fire he is red and happy.
maul

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: پتك (petk)

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پتک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pwtk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 69