اتك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *etek (“lap, edge of cloth”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (etek), Azerbaijani ətək, Bashkir итәк (itək), Kazakh етек (etek), Khakas идек (idek), Turkmen etek, Uyghur ئېتەك (ëtek) and Uzbek etak.

Noun

اتك • (etek)

1. skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist

   Synonyms: دامن (daman), ذیل (zeyl)

2. (figuratively) foot of a mountain, the lower part of a mountain

   Synonyms: راغ (rağ), یاقه (yaka)

Derived terms

• اتكلك (eteklik, “material for a skirt”)
• اتكلمك (eteklemek, “to kiss the skirt”)
• اتكلو (etekli, “furnished with a skirt”)

Descendants

• Turkish: etek
• → Armenian: էթեկ (ētʻek), էթաք (ētʻakʻ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “etek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1506
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اتك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 49
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, 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 902
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اتك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 44
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “etek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اتك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 20