English

Noun

palak ‎(uncountable)

1. (India, cooking) Spinach or similar greens (including Amaranthus species and Chenopodium album).

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Armenian բալախ ‎(balax), dialectal փալախ ‎(pʿalax).

Noun

palak ‎(definite accusative palağı, plural palaklar)

1. (dialectal, Artvin) leaf
2. (dialectal, Ahlat) a tender soft grass that grows in wet places
3. (dialectal, Artvin) short grass that grows again after being mowed
4. (dialectal, Divriği) crop sown early that remains short and does not form ears
5. (dialectal, Çemişgezek, Ağın, Urfa, Ankara) dry grass
6. (dialectal, Ahlat) type of grass eaten by animals
7. (dialectal, Ardanuç) time of crop to form ears
8. (dialectal, Pulur) dry grass

Declension

Related terms

• palaḫ, palağ, palax

References

• “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382a
• “palak (IV), (V)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382b
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 41, page 24
• Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65