تكیه
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- تكه (tekke)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian تکیه (takya, “leaning, reclining; takya”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editتكیه • (tekye) (plural تكیهلر (tekyeler))
- (Sufism) takya, a monastery or convent which acted as a hostel for dervishes and wanderers in need
- Synonym: خانقاه (hanekâh)
- (by extension) exercising place, drill-pitch, range, any area or space dedicated to trainings
Derived terms
edit- اوقجی تكیهسی (okcu tekyesi, “hall where archery is practised”)
- تكیهدار (tekyedar, “dervish dwelling in a takya”)
- تكیهلنمك (tekyelenmek, “to trust to for support”)
- تكیهلو (tekyeli, “living in a takya”)
- تكیهنِشین (tekyenişin, “dervish dwelling in a takya”)
- تكیهگاه (tekyegah, “any place or person that can be trusted”)
- مولوی تكیهسی (mevlevi tekyesi, “takya of swirling dervishes”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: tekke
- → Arabic: تَكِيَّة (takiyya)
- → Bulgarian: текия (tekija)
- → English: tekye, tekyeh, tekke
- → Macedonian: текија (tekija)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tekke”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4669
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tekye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1281
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 396
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cœnobium”, 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[3], Vienna, column 195
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تكیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1355
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tekke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 585