درقه

See also: درقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَرَقَة (daraqa).

Noun

درقه • (daraka) (plural درق or ادراق)

1. shield, especially one made of hide or leather

   Synonyms: ترس (türs), سپر (siper), قلقان (kalkan)

Derived terms

• درقی (daraki, “shield-like”)

Descendants

• Turkish: daraka

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “daraka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1104
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scutum”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1526
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “درقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 2057–2058
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “درقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 896

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَرَقَة (daraqa).

Noun

درقه • (darqe)

1. (archaic) targe, target