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𐰉𐰞𐰶

balık

Meaning:
town, city, stronghold

An old term for a town or stronghold. In the medieval period it was largely displaced by loanwords, while surviving in historical place names. Kashgari explains Beş Balıq as “Five Towns” and Yaŋı Balıq as “New Town”.

Examples

Translations

German:
Stadt, Festung
Russian:
город, крепость
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
şəhər
Turkish (Türkiye):
şehir

Bibliography 5

  • Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkic
    p. 70a, s.v. balïq³ (complete entry)
  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü
    p. 140a–b, s.v. ¹balık (complete entry)
  • Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages
    p. 1092, s.v. *pắlagV (complete entry)
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
    pp. 335b–336a, s.v. 2 balık (complete entry)
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen
    p. 60b, s.v. balyk (complete entry)