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Gulf Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek, “mattress”).
Pronunciation
Noun
دوشك • (došak)
- mattress
Iraqi Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek, “mattress”).
Pronunciation
Noun
دوشك (došak)
- mattress
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *töĺe- (“to spread out; mat, mattress”), the same root of دوشهمك (döşemek, “to spread”).
Noun
دوشك • (döşek)
- mat
- pad
- cushion
- mattress
Derived terms
- دوشكسز (döşeksiz, “bedless”)
- دوشكلك (döşeklik, “place in which beds are kept”)
- دوشكلو (döşekli, “furnished with beds”)
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “döşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1293
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 588
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, 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 929
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2173
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 922
Etymology 2
From دوشمك (düşmek, “to fall”).
Noun
دوشك • (düşük)
- miscarriage
- abortion
- an aborted fetus
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek).
Pronunciation
Noun
دوشك • (dōšak) m
- couch, sofa