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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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BLṬ بلط 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLṬ 
“root” 
▪ BLṬ_1 ‘pavement, floor, tiles; court, palace’ ↗balāṭ
▪ BLṬ_2 ‘oak; acorn’ ↗ballūṭ
▪ BLṬ_3 ‘ax’ ↗balṭaẗ
▪ BLṬ_4 ‘balata gum’ ↗balaṭaẗ
▪ BLṬ_5 ‘Tilapia nilotica, a food fish of the Nile’ ↗bulṭī
▪ BLṬ_ ‘…’ ↗…
 
▪ BLṬ_1 : 1) from Lat palatium ‘imperial residence’; ‎‎2) from Grk plateîa ‘flagstone, paved way’
▪ BLṬ_2 : …
▪ BLṬ_3 : from Tu balta ‘ax’
▪ BLṬ_4 : …
▪ BLṬ_5 : …
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLṬ-1 Akk balāṭu ‘vivre’. -2 nHbr balūṭ, bālūṭ, JP Syr balūṭā, bᵊlūṭā, Aysor bålūṭå, Mnd baluda, Ar balluṭ ‘chêne, gland’; Aram bālūṭ : cheville placée dans la barre de la porte; Syr bᵊlaṭ ‘obstruer, fermer’. -3 Akk ba/ulṭīt-, JP ba/ulṭītā, Syr belṭītā, nSyr bilṭīta : ver qui ronge le bois. -4 Talm bwlṭ?, SAr blṭ ‘argent monnayé’. -5 Ar balāṭ ‘palais’, balaṭa ‘aplanir, niveler, damer’. -6 bālaṭa ‘jouter’. -?7 SAr *blṭ : btlṭ (forme à -t- infixé) ‘fin, destruction’.
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balāṭ بلاط 
ID 090 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BLṬ 
n. 
1 royal court, palace. – 2a pavement, floor; b (pl. ʔabliṭaẗ) floor tiles – ‎WehrCowan1979. 
According to Shahîd (see below, “Etymology"), the word (in meaning ‎no. 1, ‘royal court') is one of the loans from Latin that owe their existence to the »strong Roman ‎military and administrative presence in the region", whereas no. 2 came from Grk. 
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▪ DRS 2 (1994) #BLṬ-1-4 […]. -5 Ar balāṭ ‘palais’, balaṭa ‘aplanir, niveler, damer’. -6 […].
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▪ EALL (Shahîd, “Latin Loanwords”): 1) from Lat palatium ‘imperial residence’; ‎‎2) from Grk plateîa ‘flagstone, paved way’
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►al-balāṭ al-malakī, n., the royal court;
►ḥidāḍ al-balāṭ, n., court mourning

 ►ballaṭa, vb. II, to pave (s.th., with flagstones or tiles): D-stem, denom., applicative
► balāṭaẗ, n.f., 1 floor tile; 2 flagstone, slab stone; 3 paving stone: quasi-n.un.
► tablīṭ, n., paving, tile-laying: vn. II
► muballaṭ, adj., paved, tiled: PP II

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ballūṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗balaṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
ballūṭ بَلّوط 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 5Oct2022
√BLṬ 
n. 
n., 1 oak; 2 acorn – WehrCowan1979 
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗balāṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗balaṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
balṭaẗ بَلْطة , pl. ‑āt , bulaṭ 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLṬ 
n.f. 
ax – WehrCowan1979 
▪ EALL (S. Procházka, »Turkish Loanwords«): from Tu balta ‘ax’.
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▪ Although »contacts between Arabs and speakers of Turkic languages go back to the first half of the 9th century, when the Abbasid caliphs began recruiting Turks from Central Asia as Praetorian guards", and although Arabic was influenced by a Turkic dialect during the Mamluk period too (13th-16th centuries), most loans from Turkish stem from the Ottoman period, esp. the 18th-19th century. Ar balṭa is an example of these loans, the majority of which fall into the domains of »administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes. The influence of Turkish on Arabic in these particular categories is obviously the consequence of the presence of the Ottoman bureaucracy and army in the Arab world in particular, and of the influence of centuries-long relations on everyday life in general."1 .
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►balṭaǧī, pl. -iyyaẗ, n., 1 engineer, sapper, pioneer (mil.); 2a gangster; b procurer, panderer, pimp; c sponger, hanger-on, parasite: n.prof., from balṭaẗ + Tu suffix ‑ǧī

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗balāṭ, ↗ballūṭ, ↗balaṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
balaṭaẗ بَلطة 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLṬ 
n.f. 
balata gum – WehrCowan1979
 
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗balāṭ, ↗ballūṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗bulṭī as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
bulṭī بُلْطي 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 5Oct2022
√BLṬ 
n. 
Tilapia nilotica, a food fish of the Nile – WehrCowan1979
 
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For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗balāṭ, ↗ballūṭ, ↗balṭaẗ, ↗balaṭaẗ as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√BLṬ. 
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