баткак

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bat-gak (“sticky mud, bog”), from *bat- (“to sink, get bogged/stuck in mud”). Cognate with Bashkir батҡаҡ (batqaq), Kyrgyz баткак (batkak), Kazakh батпақ (batpaq), Shor патқақ (patqaq), Karachay-Balkar батхакъ (batxaq, “clay, mud”), Uzbek botqoq, Uyghur پاتقاق (patqaq, “sticky mud, bog”), Turkmen batga (“swamp, bog”), Turkish batak (“swamp, bog”), etc.

Noun

баткак • (batkak)

  1. swamp, marsh

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “баткак”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

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