# تخته
## Khalaj
### Noun

تَخته (taxta or təxtə) (definite accusative تَخته‌نی or تَخته‌نؽ, plural تَخته‌لَر or تَخته‌لار)
* Arabic spelling of taxta, təxtə (“board, plank”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

تخته • (tahta) (definite accusative تحته‌یی (tahtayı), plural تحته‌لر (tahtalar))
* board, plank, a long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood, for use in construction or furniture-making
* (medicine) splint, a rigid or flexible device used to keep in place, restrict motion in, and protect an injured body part
* (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)
* (architecture) panelling, wainscotting, the wooden panels with which a surface, especially an indoor wall, is covered
* sheet of fur, sewed and prepared for use in lining a garment, providing a neat inside finish and concealing interfacing
* 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)

#### Derived terms

* آغا تحته‌سی (ağa tahtası, “kind of plant”)
* آقچه تحته‌سی (akça tahtası, “board for counting money”)
* ات تحته‌سی (et tahtası, “cutting board, chopping board”)
* اوتوراق تحته‌سی (oturak tahtası, “oarsman's seat”)
* ایمان تحته‌سی (imân tahtası, “breast”)
* بوستان تحته‌سی (bostan tahtası, “bed in a kitchen-garden”)
* تباشیر تخته‌سی (tebeşir tahtası, “blackboard, chalkboard”)
* تحته آولو (tahta avlu, “enclosure of boards”)
* تحته باشی (tahta başı, “upper end of a board”)
* تحته بتی (tahta biti, “bedbug”)
* تحته بوجكی (tahta böceği, “cheese mite”)
* تحته قوردی (tahta kurdu, “cheese mite”)
* تحته قوروسی (tahta kurusu, “bedbug”)
* تحته‌ صقال (tahta sakal, “whose beard is flat”)
* تحته‌ كوكرچینی (tahta güverçini, “turtle dove”)
* تحته‌ پاپوزی (tahta papuzu, “slippers”)
* تحته‌ پرده (tahta perde, “board partition”)
* تحته‌ پوش (tahta poş, “elevated platform with a parapet”)
* تحته‌جق (tahtacık, “small board”)
* تحته‌لو (tahtalı, “planked, boarded”)
* تخته پاموق (tahta pamuk, “cotton ready to be carder”)
* جدول تحته‌سی (cedvel tahtası, “flat ruler”)
* خمور تحته‌سی (hamur tahtası, “kneading trough”)
* دمیر تحته (demir tahta, “board made of tek”)
* دوشه‌مه تخته‌سی (döşeme tahtası, “floorboard”)
* دیب تحته‌سی (dib tahtası, “line of planks next to the keel of a ship”)
* سطرنج تحته‌سی (satranc tahtası, “chessboard”)
* طاش تخته (taş tahta, “blackboard”)
* طاوله تحته‌سی (tavla tahtası, “backgammon board”)
* فوچی تحته‌سی (fıçı tahtası, “stave of a barrel”)
* قصاب تحته‌سی (kasâb tahtası, “cutting board, chopping board”)
* كمان تحته‌سی (kemân tahtası, “part of the violin”)
* كوكس تحته‌سی (göğüs tahtası, “flat of the chest”)
* مانغال تحته‌سی (mangal tahtası, “tray on which a brazier stands”)
* چام تحته‌سی (çam tahtası, “board made of pine”)
* یازی تخته‌سی (yazı tahtası, “writing board”)

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 149b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تخته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 1108
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 513

## 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), Aghwan 𐔳𐔰𐕀𐕜𐔰𐕄 (daxṭaḳ), and Arabic تَخْتَج (taḵtaj), Middle Iranian borrowings.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tax.ta]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰæx.t̪ʰe]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäχ.t̪ʰä]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

تخته • (taxte) (plural تخته‌ها (taxte-hâ))
* board (a relatively long and wide piece of any material, usually wood)
* plank
* board; blackboard, chalkboard, whiteboard

#### Derived terms

* تخته سیاه (taxte siyâh)
* تخته نرد (taxte nard)
* پیشتخته (piš-taxte)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: taxta
* → Bashkir: таҡта (taqta)
* → Bengali: তক্তা (tokta)
* → Gujarati: તખ્તા (takhtā)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: तख़्ता (taxtā)
    Urdu: تختہ (taxtā)
* → Kazakh: тақта (taqta)
* → Khalaj: taxta
* → Kyrgyz: такта (takta)
* → Ottoman Turkish: تخته (tahta)
** Turkish: tahta
** → Serbo-Croatian: tahta / тахта
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਤਖਤਾ (takhtā)
    Shahmukhi script: تختہ (taxtā)
* → Russian: тахта (taxta)
* → Southern Altai: тақта
* → Tatar: такта (taqta)
* → Turkmen: tagta
* → Ukrainian: тахта (taxta)
* → 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