بلوك

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See also: بلوک and پلوک

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English block and French bloc.

Noun

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بْلُوك (blūkm (plural بْلُوكَات (blūkāt))

  1. (coding, cryptocurrencies) block
  2. (architecture, production) block, any element in building or machinery approximating cuboid form
  3. (social sciences) a block, faction of people
    Synonym: كُتْلَة (kutla)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük).

Noun

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بُلُوك (bulūkm (plural بُلُوكَات (bulūkāt))

  1. (military, Egypt, obsolete) company
  2. (Egypt, obsolete) wing of a building
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References

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  • Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern[1], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 113 Nr. 55
  • Spiro, Socrates (1895) “بلوك”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 58

Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫlük (part, fraction, section), from *bȫl- (to divide, separate, distinguish); cognate with Azerbaijani bölük, Kazakh бөлік (bölık), Kyrgyz бөлүк (bölük), Southern Altai бӧлӱк (bölük), Tuvan бөлүк (bölük).

Noun

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بلوك (bölük)

  1. part, division, subdivision, fraction, section
  2. (military) company of infantry, commanded by a captain
  3. (military) squadron of cavalry, comprising two companies
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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bölük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 674
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎[2] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 323–326, Nr. 772
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بلوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 293b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Turma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[4], Vienna, column 1705
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 886
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bölük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 385b