تكیه

See also: تکیه and تكية

Ottoman Turkish

تَكیه

Alternative forms

• تكه (tekke)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تکیه (takya, “leaning, reclining; takya”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛk.ˈjɛ]

Noun

تكیه • (tekye) (definite accusative تكیه‌یی (tekyeyi), plural تكیه‌لر (tekyeler))

1. (Sufism) takya, a monastery or convent which acted as a hostel for dervishes and wanderers in need

   Synonym: خانقاه (hanekâh)

2. (by extension) exercising place, drill-pitch, range, any area or space dedicated to training or shooting

Derived terms

• اوقجی تكیه‌سی (okcu tekyesi, “hall where archery is practised”)
• تكیه‌دار (tekyedar, “dervish dwelling in a takya”)
• تكیه‌كاه (tekyegâh, “any place or person that can be trusted”)
• تكیه‌لنمك (tekyelenmek, “to trust to for support”)
• تكیه‌لو (tekyeli, “living in a takya”)
• تكیه‌نِشین (tekyenişin, “dervish dwelling in a takya”)
• رفاعی تكیه‌سی (rifâʼi tekyesi, “takya of the Rifaʽi order”)
• مولوی تكیه‌سی (mevlevi tekyesi, “takya of swirling dervishes”)
• پهلوان تكیه‌سی (pehlevân tekyesi, “wrestling academy”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tekke
• → Arabic: تَكِيَّة (takiyya)
  • → Chinese: 塔基亚 (tǎjīyà)
  • → English: takiyya, takiyah, takīyah
• → Bulgarian: текия (tekija)
• → English: tekye
• → Macedonian: текија (tekija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тѐкија

  Latin script: tèkija

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تكیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 482
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tekke”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4669
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tekye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1281
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 396
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cœnobium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 195
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تكیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1355
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tekke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 585