Levantine etymology of the week: قدام (oddam), برضه (bardo) and بلكي (balki)
Levantine etymology for the week:
While going through this book |
قدام (oddam): comes from Aramaic (qd̠ām, qŭd̠ām) برضه (bardo): comes from Ottoman Turkish بر ده (bir de)
بلكي (balk): From Ottoman Turkish بلكه (belki, “maybe”), from Persian بلکه (balke, “but”).
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