palağ

Turkish

Etymology

From Armenian բալախ (balax), dialectal փալախ (pʿalax).

Noun

palağ

  1. (dialectal, Kaptanpaşa) a kind of grass that grows in the highlands

References

  • “palağ”, 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
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65
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