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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