دكة

Altered from دُكَّان (dukkān, “dais, estrade”), contaminated also with دَكَّ (dakka, “to pound down”).

دَكَّة or دِكَّة • (dakka or dikka) f (plural دِكَك (dikak)) (colloquial)

1. a raised platform to bide upon
   1. a bench, a flat-topped structure on the outside of a house upon which one sits
   2. a tribune upon columns in a mosque for recitations by the imam, dikka
   3. a kind of brancard, a litter on which a bier is placed before its transferral to the tomb
   4. the spot on a building site where building material is stacked
2. grit, crushed stone, ground ground

• → English: dikka
• → Serbo-Croatian: dìkka

دِكَّة • (dikka) f (plural دِكَك (dikak))

1. Alternative form of تِكَّة (tikka, “waistband”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دكة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 453b
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “دكة”, 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 46a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دكة”, 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 C^ie, pages 718b–719a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دكة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 899b
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “دكة”, 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) “دكة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 400