balti

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English

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Etymology

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From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, pail), originally coined by Birmingham restaurateur Afzal Butt because English people had difficulty pronouncing karahi, the name of the dish used for cooking this food.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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a chicken balti dish in a restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland

balti (countable and uncountable, plural baltis)

  1. (uncountable) A style of Pakistani cooking in which the food is cooked in an iron pan having two handles.
    • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 136:
      For in time, balti became an enduring British cultural entity all of its own—even as Jim Davidson and his fellow bullies lapsed into obscurity.
  2. (countable) A dish cooked in this style.

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Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒlti]
  • Hyphenation: bal‧ti
  • Rhymes: -ti

Adjective

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balti (not comparable)

  1. Baltic (of or pertaining to the Baltic region or the Baltic Sea)
  2. Baltic (of or pertaining to any of the Baltic languages)
  3. Baltic (of or pertaining to the Balts)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative balti baltiak
accusative baltit baltiakat
dative baltinak baltiaknak
instrumental baltival baltiakkal
causal-final baltiért baltiakért
translative baltivá baltiakká
terminative baltiig baltiakig
essive-formal baltiként baltiakként
essive-modal
inessive baltiban baltiakban
superessive baltin baltiakon
adessive baltinál baltiaknál
illative baltiba baltiakba
sublative baltira baltiakra
allative baltihoz baltiakhoz
elative baltiból baltiakból
delative baltiról baltiakról
ablative baltitól baltiaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
baltié baltiaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
baltiéi baltiakéi

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Noun

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balti (plural baltiak)

  1. Balt (inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative balti baltiak
accusative baltit baltiakat
dative baltinak baltiaknak
instrumental baltival baltiakkal
causal-final baltiért baltiakért
translative baltivá baltiakká
terminative baltiig baltiakig
essive-formal baltiként baltiakként
essive-modal
inessive baltiban baltiakban
superessive baltin baltiakon
adessive baltinál baltiaknál
illative baltiba baltiakba
sublative baltira baltiakra
allative baltihoz baltiakhoz
elative baltiból baltiakból
delative baltiról baltiakról
ablative baltitól baltiaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
baltié baltiaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
baltiéi baltiakéi
Possessive forms of balti
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. baltim baltijaim(or baltiim)
2nd person sing. baltid baltijaid(or baltiid)
3rd person sing. baltija baltijai(or baltii)
1st person plural baltink baltijaink(or baltiink)
2nd person plural baltitok baltijaitok(or baltiitok)
3rd person plural baltijuk baltijaik(or baltiik)

Further reading

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  • balti in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Latvian

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Noun

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balti m (Balts; chiefly plural)

  1. nominative/vocative plural of balts

Adjective

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balti

  1. nominative plural masculine of balts

Adverb

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balti

  1. white, whitish; adverbial form of balts
    balti noberzts galdsa table scrubbed white (= very clean)

Spanish

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Noun

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balti m (plural baltis)

  1. balti