palağ

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

palağ

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

Related terms

• palak, palaḫ

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 (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65