دیكیش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دیكش (dikiş)

Etymology

From دیكـ (dik-, “to sew, stitch”) +‎ ـیش (-iş).

Noun

دیكیش • (dikiş)

1. verbal noun of دیكمك (dikmek):
   1. stitch, a single pass of needle in sewing
   2. (nautical) splice, a junction or joining of ropes
   3. seam, a folded-back and stitched piece of fabric
   4. (surgery) suture, a seam which joins pieces of skin

Derived terms

• دیكیشجی (dikişci, “tailor”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dikiş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dikiş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1215
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیكیش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sutura”, 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 1642
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دیكیش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2107
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیكش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 937