پتک

See also: پتك, تبك, and ببک

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (potk, “sledgehammer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [putk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊt̪k]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊt̪k]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰʊt̪k]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰut̪k]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰot̪kʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰut̪k]

Readings
Classical reading?	putk
Dari reading?	putk
Iranian reading?	potk
Tajik reading?	putk

Noun

پتک • (potk) (plural پتک‌ها (potk-hâ))

1. sledgehammer
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 830:

     هست آن آهن فقیر سخت کش
     زیر پتک و آتش است او سرخ و خوش

     hast ān āhan faqīr saxt kaš
     zēr putk u ātiš ast ō surx u xwaš

     That iron is the dervish who bears hardship (self-mortification):
     under the hammer and the fire he is red and happy.

2. maul

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پتك (petk)

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پتک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pwtk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 69