دك

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Arabic

Etymology

Compare Hebrew דיכא (to crush).

Verb

دَكَّ (dakka) I (non-past يَدُكُّ (yadukku), verbal noun دَكّ (dakk))

  1. alternative form of دَقَّ (daqqa, to crush, to pound, to beat, to press down)
  2. to fill by pressing into, to fill up with earth or the like, for example to charge (i.e. to fill the charge into) a firearm (which was done with the مِدَكّ (midakk, ramrod))

Conjugation

Noun

دَكّ (dakkm

  1. verbal noun of دَكَّ (dakka) (form I), alternative form of دَقّ (daqq)

Declension

Noun

دَكّ (dakkm (plural دِكَاك (dikāk) or دُكُوك (dukūk))

  1. level and depressed ground, even earth

Declension

Noun

دُكّ (dukkm (plural دِكَكَة (dikaka))

  1. elevating mass of earth, mound

Declension

Adjective

دُكّ (dukkc pl

  1. common plural of أَدَكّ (ʔadakk, of a pressed-down back)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دك”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 453
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 45b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 718
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “دك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 898c
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “دك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 333
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 400

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tẹŋ, from Proto-Turkic *tẹg-. Related to دكمك (dägmäk, to touch).

Adjective

دَكْ (däŋ)

  1. equal (by weight)
  2. (figurative) alike, equal, at the same level
    Synonym: اش ()
  3. proper, appropriate

Noun

دَكْ (däŋ)

  1. weight
  2. a weight measurement unit equivalent to 0,80175 grams
Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gagauz: denk
  • Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk), دنگ (deng)

Further reading

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tẹg, from Proto-Turkic *tẹg-.

Adverb

دَكْ (däk)

  1. until
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: دك (dek)

Further reading

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Adjective

دك (dik)

  1. alternative spelling of دیك (dik)

Adverb

دك (dik)

  1. alternative spelling of دیك (dik)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic, cognate to Kazakh дейін (deiın) and Bashkir тиклем (tiklem) which see.

Alternative forms

Adverb

دك (dek)

  1. until, till, up to
Descendants

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2103–2104