بالش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (bāliš, “pillow”).

Noun

بالش • (baliş)

bolster, pillow, a soft cushion used to support the head in bed
Synonym: یاصدق (yasdık)

Derived terms

بالشچه (balişçe, “small pillow”)

Descendants

Turkish: baliş

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baliş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 454
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “baliş”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 86
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvinar”, 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, Vienna, column 1406
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بالش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 685
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bʾlšn'), from Proto-Iranian *barjíš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰarȷ́ʰíš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-; see there for further information.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑː.ˈliʃ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.lɪ́ʃ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.lɪ́ʃ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.líʃ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.léʃ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔ.líʃ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	bāliš
Dari reading^?	bāliš
Iranian reading^?	bâleš
Tajik reading^?	boliš

Noun


Iranian Persian	بالش
Dari	بالش
Tajik	болиш

بالش • (bâleš) (plural بالش‌ها (bâleš-hâ))

pillow, cushion

Descendants

Descendants

Tajik: болиш (boliš)
→ Armenian: բալիշ (bališ)
→ Assamese: বালিছ (balis)
→ Azerbaijani: balış
→ Bashkir: бәлеш (bəleş)
- → Russian: беляш (beljaš)
→ Bengali: বালিশ (baliś)
→ Gujarati: બાલિશ (bāliś)
→ Georgian: ბალიში (bališi)
→ Hindi: बालिश (bāliś)
→ Kazakh: бәліш (bälış)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بالش (bâliş)
- Turkish: baliş

Further reading

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بالش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.lɪʃ/
Rhymes: -ɪʃ
Hyphenation: با‧لِش

Noun

بالِش • (bāliś) m (Hindi spelling बालिश)

pillow, cushion
Synonyms: سرہانہ (sirhāna), تکیہ (takiya), مسند (masnad)

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