Talk:بکم

Further origin
With this selection in Dictionary of the economic products of India II p. 10 and knowledge of the origin of types of brazilwood I now see how this name  came to the Near East, though not when, and I will not be able to write out all forms and make out whether it came from Sanskrit into the Dravidian languages or originally from Dravidian or even from Austronesian. I just mention this job,. At some point somebody will have to make a good template to link all those volumes linked by Wikipedia. Fay Freak (talk) 15:47, 10 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I wasn't aware of this dictionary. Making sense of this particular entry and the whole dictionary will probably take time. Perhaps the corresponding CDIAL entry is pattrāṅga. See the wikipedia links at: Q56088062. What language is text?


 * Hindi, Bengali: bakam, tairi, patang
 * Santali: teri
 * Oriya: bokomo
 * Gujarati: patang na lakaru, patang-nu-ládkdo, bakam
 * text: patang-kí-lakri
 * Marathi: patanga
 * Tamil: patanga, vattángi, vattêku, vartangi
 * Telugu: bakamu, bakapu, okánu-katta, patanga-katta, bakánu-chekka, búkkapu-chekka
 * Kannada: patanga-chekke, sappanga
 * Tulu:
 * Malayalam: chappanum
 * Burmese: teinnnyet, tainmya or tainngiya
 * Sanskrit: pattánga Kutchkutch (talk) 09:57, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Without looking, it is Dukhani (I had to find out once that this is what 19th century sources spelt the) now spelt Deccani, 🇨🇬. Fay Freak (talk) 10:24, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense because patang-kí-lakri appears to be Hindustani /, and Deccani is a variety of Hindustani. (There was a discussion about Deccani here: Category talk:Hindustani languages.) Also,  must be from Persian or Arabic, so  and  are probably from Persian or Arabic as well. Kutchkutch (talk) 10:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Tulu:
 * Malayalam: chappanum
 * Burmese: teinnnyet, tainmya or tainngiya
 * Sanskrit: pattánga Kutchkutch (talk) 09:57, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Without looking, it is Dukhani (I had to find out once that this is what 19th century sources spelt the) now spelt Deccani, 🇨🇬. Fay Freak (talk) 10:24, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense because patang-kí-lakri appears to be Hindustani /, and Deccani is a variety of Hindustani. (There was a discussion about Deccani here: Category talk:Hindustani languages.) Also,  must be from Persian or Arabic, so  and  are probably from Persian or Arabic as well. Kutchkutch (talk) 10:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Without looking, it is Dukhani (I had to find out once that this is what 19th century sources spelt the) now spelt Deccani, 🇨🇬. Fay Freak (talk) 10:24, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * That makes sense because patang-kí-lakri appears to be Hindustani /, and Deccani is a variety of Hindustani. (There was a discussion about Deccani here: Category talk:Hindustani languages.) Also,  must be from Persian or Arabic, so  and  are probably from Persian or Arabic as well. Kutchkutch (talk) 10:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)