باتاق

Ottoman Turkish

باتاق

Alternative forms

• بتاق (batak), باتق (batak), بطاق (batak)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”), from the same root of باتمق (batmak, “to sink”). Cognate with Azerbaijani bataq, Bashkir батҡаҡ (batqaq), Chuvash путхах (puthah), Kazakh батпақ (batpaq), Kyrgyz баткак (batkak), Turkmen batga, Uyghur پاتقاق (patqaq) and Uzbek botqoq.

Noun

باتاق • (batak) (definite accusative باتاغی (batağı), plural باتاقلر (bataklar))

1. swamp, marsh, mire, bog, quagmire, an area of low and wet land

   Synonym: خلاش (hilaş)

2. quicksand, wet sand that appears firm, but in which things readily sink
3. barrelhouse, honky-tonk, any establishment where fraud takes place

   Synonym: باتاقخانه (batakhane)

Adjective

باتاق • (batak)

1. sloughy, swampy, marshy, boggy, miry, having the characteristics of a wetland or swamp
2. (figuratively) fraudulent, based on fraud or deception in order to secure unlwaful gain

Derived terms

• باتاقجی (batakcı, “knocker”)
• باتاقخانه (batakhane, “gambling den”)
• باتاقلق (bataklık, “swampy place”)
• باتاقلی (bataklı, “swampy”)
• قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”)
• یهودی باتاق (yahudî batak, “water tank for ablution”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: batak
• → Bulgarian: бата́к (baták)
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պաթախ (patʻax), (Van) բաթլաղ (batʻlaġ), (Nor Nakhichevan) պաթխախ (patʻxax)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 251
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “باتق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 98a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1236
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باتاق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 625
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “batak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باتاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 315