آری دیكنی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of آری (arı, “bee”) +‎ دیكن (diken, “thorn”).

Noun

آری دیكنی • (arı dikeni)

1. stinger, a pointed portion of a bee used for attack

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آری دیكنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 599
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آری دیكنی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 2111–2112