بالش

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

بالش • (baliş)

1. 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^[1] (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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 685
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 334

Persian

Alternative forms

• بالشت (bâlešt)

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]

• (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

Dari	بالش
Iranian Persian
Tajik	болиш

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

1. pillow, cushion

   Synonym: کوسن (kusan)

Descendants

Descendants

• → 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
• → Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠟꠤꠡ (baliś)
• → Uzbek: bolish

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)

1. pillow, cushion

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