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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *etek (“lap, edge of cloth”); cognate with Old Turkic (etek), Azerbaijani ətək, Bashkir итәк (itək), Kazakh етек (etek), Khakas идек (idek), Turkmen etek, Uyghur ئېتەك (ëtek) and Uzbek etak.
Noun
اتك • (etek)
- skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist
- Synonyms: دامن (daman), ذیل (zeyl)
- (figuratively) foot of a mountain, the lower part of a mountain
- Synonyms: راغ (rağ), یاقه (yaka)
Derived terms
- اتكلك (eteklik, “material for a skirt”)
- اتكلمك (eteklemek, “to kiss the skirt”)
- اتكلو (etekli, “furnished with a skirt”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “etek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1506
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 49
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, 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 902
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 44
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “etek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 20