دیرك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• درك (direk)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tīrek (“prop, support”) and thus related to دیره‌مك (diremek, “to support”); cognate with Azerbaijani dirək, Bashkir терәк (terək), Chuvash чарак (čarak), Kazakh тірек (tırek), Tatar терәк (teräk), Turkmen dīrek, Uyghur تىرەك (tirek) and Uzbek tirak.

Noun

دیرك • (direk)

1. column, pillar, prop, support

   Synonyms: دستك (destek), ستون (sütun), عمود (ʿamud)

2. any upright post or pole, like a mast or flagstaff
3. beam, girder, a large piece of timber

   Synonym: مرتك (mertek)

Derived terms

• باش دیركی (baş direği, “foremast”)
• بورون دیركی (burun direği, “septum of the nose”)
• بیراق دیرك (bayrak direği, “flagpole”)
• دیرك آغاجی (direk ağacı, “tree used as a mast”)
• دیرك دیكمك (direk dikmek, “to set up a post”)
• دیركلك (direklik, “tree or stick of timber”)
• دیركلنمك (direklenmek, “to grow tall as a mast”)
• دیركلو (direkli, “furnished with a pillar or prop”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: direk
• → Armenian: դիրագ (dirag)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “direk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1235
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “دیرك”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 365b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیرك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 596
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Trabs”, 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 1682
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “درك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2059
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “direk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیرك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 934