دیرسك

دیرسك

Ottoman Turkish

دیرسك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tirsgek (“elbow”); cognate with Azerbaijani dirsək, Bashkir терһәк (terhäk), Kazakh тірсек (tırsek), Kyrgyz тирсек (tirsek), Turkmen tirsek and Uzbek tirsak.

Noun

دیرسك • (dirsek)

1. elbow, the joint between the upper arm and the forearm

   Synonyms: آرنج‎ (arenc), مرفق‎ (mirfak), وارن‎ (varen)

2. (by extension) any turn or bend like that of an elbow

Derived terms

• ایت دیرسكی‎ (it dirseği, “stye on the eyelid”)
• دیرسكلو‎ (dirsekli, “bent like an elbow”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: dirsek
• → Armenian: տիրսէկ (tirsēk), թիսէք (tʿisēkʿ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dirsek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1241
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دیرسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 596
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cubitus”, 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, Vienna, column 306
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دیرسك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2211
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dirsek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دیرسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 934