# بلوك
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English block and French bloc.

#### Noun

بْلُوك • (blūk) m (plural بْلُوكَات (blūkāt))
* (coding, cryptocurrencies) block
* (architecture, production) block, any element in building or machinery approximating cuboid form
* (social sciences) a block, faction of people
    Synonym: كُتْلَة (kutla)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بلوك (bölük).

#### Noun

بُلُوك • (bulūk) m (plural بُلُوكَات (bulūkāt))
* (military, Egypt, obsolete) company
* (Egypt, obsolete) wing of a building

##### Declension
### References

* Littmann, Enno (1954) “Türkisches Sprachgut im Ägyptisch-Arabischen”, in Fritz Meier, editor, Westöstliche Abhandlungen : Rudolf Tschudi zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Schülern‎, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 113 Nr. 55
* Spiro, Socrates (1895) “بلوك”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 58

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* بولك (bölük), بولوك (bölük)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫlük (“part, fraction, section”), from *bȫl- (“to divide, separate, distinguish”); cognate with Azerbaijani bölük, Kazakh бөлік (bölık), Kyrgyz бөлүк (bölük), Southern Altai бӧлӱк (bölük), Tuvan бөлүк (bölük).

### Noun

بلوك • (bölük)
* part, division, subdivision, fraction, section
* (military) company of infantry, commanded by a captain
* (military) squadron of cavalry, comprising two companies

#### Related terms

* بولم (bölüm, “division, portion”)
* بولمك (bölmek, “to divide, separate”)
* بولگه (bölge, “region, area, zone”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bölük
* → Albanian: bylyk
* → Arabic: بُلُوك (bulūk)
* → Armenian: բոլուկ (boluk)
* → Bulgarian: билю́к (biljúk), бюлю́к (bjuljúk)
* → Greek: μπουλούκι (bouloúki)
* → Macedonian: булук (buluk)
* → Romanian: buluc
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бу̀љук
    Latin script: bùljuk

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bölük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 674
* Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 323–326, Nr. 772
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بلوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 293b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Turma”, 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, Vienna, column 1705
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بلوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 886
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bölük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 385b