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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tīrek (“prop, support”) and thus related to دیرهمك (diremek, “to support”); cognate with Azerbaijani dirək, Bashkir терәк (terək), Chuvash чарак (čarak), Kazakh тірек (tırek), Tatar терәк (teräk), Turkmen dīrek, Uyghur تىرەك (tirek) and Uzbek tirak.
Noun
دیرك • (direk)
- column, pillar, prop, support
- Synonyms: دستك (destek), ستون (sütun), عمود (ʿamud)
- any upright post or pole, like a mast or flagstaff
- beam, girder, a large piece of timber
- Synonym: مرتك (mertek)
Derived terms
- باش دیركی (baş direği, “foremast”)
- بورون دیركی (burun direği, “septum of the nose”)
- بیراق دیرك (bayrak direği, “flagpole”)
- دیرك آغاجی (direk ağacı, “tree used as a mast”)
- دیرك دیكمك (direk dikmek, “to set up a post”)
- دیركلك (direklik, “tree or stick of timber”)
- دیركلنمك (direklenmek, “to grow tall as a mast”)
- دیركلو (direkli, “furnished with a pillar or prop”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “direk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1235
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “دیرك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 365b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 596
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trabs”, 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 1682
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “درك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2059
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “direk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 934