Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیكلمك (dikilmek, to be sewed or stitched, to be planted, to be erected, for the eyes to become fixed upon an object, for a drink to be wholly drunk up),[1] from Ottoman Turkish دیكمك (dikmek, to sew, to stitch, to plant, to stick a thing into a thing, to fix the eyes on an object, to drink off), from Proto-Turkic *tik- (to plant vertically).[2][3]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /di.cilˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: di‧kil‧mek

Verb edit

dikilmek (third-person singular simple present dikilir)

  1. (intransitive) passive of dikmek
  2. (intransitive) To become erect, to get to or be put in a vertical position.
  3. (intransitive) To stand continuously.
  4. (intransitive) (for eyes) To become fixed at a particular point.
  5. (intransitive) To stand up against, to defy.
  6. (intransitive, physiology) (for some parts of the body) To become rigid and erect as a result of being engorged with blood.

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References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 938
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dik-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dik-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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