مالاق
Ottoman Turkish
مالاق
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bālak (“baby animal”), a development of *bāla (“young animal; child”). For the change of initial consonant /b/ > /m/, compare مقره (makara, “pulley”), منتشه (menteşe, “hinge”), منكشه (menekşe, “violet”) and میان (mıyan, “licorice”).
Descendants
- Turkish: malak
- → Armenian: մալախ (malax), մալագ (malag)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “malak1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3034
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مالاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1094
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “malak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مالاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1659
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