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Moroccan Arabic
Pronunciation
Determiner
دوك • (dūk) pl
- plural of داك (dāk): those
- دوك الحوايج موسخين. ― dūk le-ḥwāyej mūssḵīn ― Those clothes are dirty.
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دوک (duk, “spindle”).
Noun
دوك • (dük) (definite accusative دوكی (düğü), plural دوكلر (dükler))
- (literary) spindle, a rod used for spinning and then winding fibres, especially wool
- Synonyms: ایك (iğ), كرمان (kerman), مغزل (miğzel)
Descendants
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fusus”, 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 636
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2179
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 924