dikilmek

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیكلمك (dikilmek, “to be sewed or stitched, to be planted, to be erected, for the eyes to become fixed upon an object, for a drink to be wholly drunk up”), from Ottoman Turkish دیكمك (dikmek, “to sew, to stitch, to plant, to stick a thing into a thing, to fix the eyes on an object, to drink off”), from Proto-Turkic *tik- (“to plant vertically”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.cilˈmec/
• Hyphenation: di‧kil‧mek

Verb

dikilmek (third-person singular simple present dikilir)

1. (intransitive) passive of dikmek
2. (intransitive) To become erect, to get to or be put in a vertical position.
3. (intransitive) To stand continuously.
4. (intransitive) (for eyes) To become fixed at a particular point.
5. (intransitive) To stand up against, to defy.
6. (intransitive, physiology) (for some parts of the body) To become rigid and erect as a result of being engorged with blood.

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Further reading

• “dikilmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dikilmek¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1215