palak

From Hindi पालक (pālak), from Sanskrit पालक्या (pālakyā).

palak (uncountable)

1. (India, cooking) Spinach or similar greens (including Amaranthus species and Chenopodium album).

• Palka, kalpa, klapa

Borrowed from Armenian բալախ (balax), dialectal փալախ (pʻalax).

palak (definite accusative palağı, plural palaklar)

1. (dialectal, Artvin) leaf
2. (dialectal, Ahlat) a tender soft grass that grows in wet places
3. (dialectal, Artvin) short grass that grows again after being mown
4. (dialectal, Divriği) crop sown early that remains short and does not form ears
5. (dialectal, Çemişgezek, Ağın, Urfa, Ankara) dry grass
6. (dialectal, Ahlat) type of grass eaten by animals
7. (dialectal, Ardanuç) time of crop to form ears
8. (dialectal, Pulur) dry grass

• palaḫ, palağ

• “palaḫ (II)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382a
• “palak (IV), (V)”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 9, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1977, page 3382b
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 41, page 24
• Bläsing, Uwe (1992) Armenisches Lehngut im Türkeitürkischen am Beispiel von Hemşin (Dutch Studies in Armenian Language and Literature; 2) (in German), Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, § 101, pages 64–65