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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Greek δικέλλα (dikélla), from Ancient Greek δίκελλα (díkella, “two-pronged fork”).
Noun
دیكل • (dikel)
- two-pronged digging-fork, hoe
Descendants
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دیكل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2215–2216
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “دیكل”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 447