Ottoman Turkish

Noun

تخته • ‎(tahta)

1. board, plank
2. slab, tablet
3. sheet, layer
4. flowerbed

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian tʾhtk' ‎(taxtag, “tablet, plank, (chess) board”), from tʾht' ‎(taxt, “throne”) and the suffix -k' ‎(-ag). Compare Old Armenian տախտակ ‎(taxtak) and Arabic تختج ‎(taxtaj), Middle Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tæxˈtæ/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /tæxˈte/

Noun

تخته • ‎(taxte) ‎(plural تخته‌ها ‎(taxte-hâ))

تخته (1)

1. board (a relatively long and wide piece of any material, usually wood)
2. plank
3. board; blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard

Derived terms

• تخته نرد ‎(taxte nard)
• تخته سیاه ‎(taxte siyâh)

Related terms

• تخت ‎(taxt)
• ـه ‎(-e)

Descendants

• Azeri: taxta / تخته
• Bashkir: таҡта ‎(taqta)
• Bengali: তক্তা ‎(taktā)
• Hindustani:

  Hindi: तख़्ता ‎(taxtā)

  Urdu: تختہ ‎(taxtā)

• Kazakh: тақта ‎(taqta)
• Kyrgyz: такта ‎(takta)
• Ottoman Turkish: تخته ‎(tahta)
  • Turkish: tahta
  • Serbo-Croatian: tahta / тахта
• Punjabi: ਤਖਤਾ ‎(takhtā)
• Russian: тахта ‎(taxta)
• Southern Altai: тақта ‎(taқta)
• Tatar: такта ‎(taqta)
• Turkmen: tagta
• Uzbek: taxta

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تخته”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “taxt”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press