बत्तख़
See also: बत्तख
Hindi
Alternative forms
Etymology
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 (bataka), Kashmiri بَطُخ (batux), Telugu బాతు (bātu), Kannada ಬಾತುಕೋಳಿ (bātukōḷi), Malayalam വാത്ത (vātta).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /bət̪.t̪əx/, [bɐt̪̚.t̪ɐx], /bət̪.t̪əkʰ/, [bɐt̪̚.t̪ɐkʰ]
Noun
बत्तख़ • (battax) f (Urdu spelling بطخ)
- duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
- बत्तख़ें ज़्यादातर मछली खाती हैं।
- battaxẽ zyādātar machlī khātī ha͠i.
- Ducks generally eat fish.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | बत्तख़ battax |
बत्तख़ें battaxẽ |
| oblique | बत्तख़ battax |
बत्तख़ों battaxõ |
| vocative | बत्तख़ battax |
बत्तख़ो battaxo |
Further reading
- Bahri, Caturvedi, Dasa-Hindi (2022) “बतख”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Hindi Dictionaries]
- 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, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC