బాతు

Telugu

Etymology

From Portuguese pato (“duck”) or from Urdu بتک (batak, “duck”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /baːt̪u/

Noun

బాతు • (bātu) n (plural బాతులు)

  1. duck

References
  • Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 479.
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