دكهمك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكَمَكْ (däŋämäk, “to compare, measure; to try”), from Proto-Turkic *teŋe- (“to value, compare”),[1] a derivation from *teŋ (“equal”), whence دنك (denk, “equal”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dənəmək.
Verb
[edit]دكهمك • (deñemek)
- (transitive) to try, try out, test, put to the test, to scrutinize, explore, or evaluate by testing or experimentation
- Synonym: صینامق (sınamak)
- (transitive) to try, attempt, endeavour, fand, to seek to do a thing, to make an attempt or effort to do something
- Synonym: قالقشمق (kalkışmak)
Derived terms
[edit]- دكهدلمك (deñedilmek, “to be made or let be tried”)
- دكهلمك (deñelmek, “to be put to test”)
- كوچنی دكهمك (güçünü deñemek, “to test the resistance”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teŋe:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 516
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دكهمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 749
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “denemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1148
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دكهمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 227a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكهمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 577
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Probare”, 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 1363
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دكهمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2114
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dene-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دكهمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 910