تخته

تَخته (taxta or təxtə) (definite accusative تَخته‌نی or تَخته‌نؽ, plural تَخته‌لَر or تَخته‌لار)

1. Arabic spelling of taxta, təxtə (“board, plank”)

Borrowed from Persian تخته (taxte, “board, plank”), itself from Middle Persian tʾhtk' (taxtag, “tablet, plank, (chess) board”).

تخته • (tahta) (definite accusative تحته‌یی (tahtayı), plural تحته‌لر (tahtalar))

1. board, plank, a long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood, for use in construction or furniture-making
2. (medicine) splint, a rigid or flexible device used to keep in place, restrict motion in, and protect an injured body part
3. (historical) tablet, any slab of clay, stone, wax, or wood used in antiquity and in the Middle Ages as a writing surface

   Synonym: لوحه (levha)

4. (architecture) panelling, wainscotting, the wooden panels with which a surface, especially an indoor wall, is covered
5. sheet of fur, sewed and prepared for use in lining a garment, providing a neat inside finish and concealing interfacing
6. flowerbed, the part of a garden or park in which flowers are grown and displayed to the public in an ornamental way

   Synonym: چیچكلك (çiçeklik)

• Turkish: tahta
• → Serbo-Croatian: tahta / тахта

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تحته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 447
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tahta1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4543
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تخته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 149b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تخته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 352
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tabula”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1645
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تخته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1108
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 513

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

Readings
Classical reading?	taxta
Dari reading?	taxta
Iranian reading?	taxte
Tajik reading?	taxta

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

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

• 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