دوشك

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek, “mattress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doʊʃək]

Noun

دوشك • (došak)

1. mattress

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek, “mattress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doʊʃək]

Noun

دوشك (došak)

1. mattress

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *töĺe- (“to spread out; mat, mattress”), the same root of دوشه‌مك (döşemek, “to spread”).

Noun

دوشك • (döşek)

1. mat
2. pad
3. cushion
4. mattress

Derived terms

• دوشكسز (döşeksiz, “bedless”)
• دوشكلك (döşeklik, “place in which beds are kept”)
• دوشكلو (döşekli, “furnished with beds”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: döşek
• → Albanian: dyshek
• → Gulf Arabic: دوشك
• → Iraqi Arabic: دوشك
• → Bulgarian: дюшек (djušek)
• → Georgian: დოშეგი (došegi)
• → Northern Kurdish: doşek
• → Macedonian: душек (dušek)
• → Middle Armenian: տօշակ (tōšak)
  • Armenian: դոշակ (došak)
• → Persian: دوشک / تشک
• → Serbo-Croatian: dušek / душек

See also

• مندر (minder)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “döşek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1293
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوشك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 588
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 929
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوشك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2173
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوشك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 922

Etymology 2

From دوشمك (düşmek, “to fall”).

Noun

دوشك • (düşük)

1. miscarriage
2. abortion
3. an aborted fetus

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوشك (döşek).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doː.ʃak/, [ˈdoː.ʃak]

• Audio (Ramallah):

  (file)

Noun

دوشك • (dōšak) m

1. couch, sofa