دنك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكْ (“equal; weight”), from Proto-Turkic *teŋ (“equal”). Cognate with Bashkir тиң (tiñ), Chuvash тан (tan), Kazakh тең (teñ), Kumyk тенг (teñ), Kyrgyz тең (teŋ), Turkmen deň, Uyghur تەڭ (teng), Uzbek teng and Yakut тэҥ (teñ).

Noun

دنك • (denk) (definite accusative دنكی (denği), plural دنكلر (denkler))

1. bale, pack, a rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

   Synonym: بالیه (balya)

2. counterbalance, counterpoise, a weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales

   Synonym: عدل (ʼidl)

3. equilibrium, balance, poise, stability, a state or condition of a system in which opposing forces harmonise

   Synonyms: اعتدال (i’tidâl), موازنه (muvâzene)

Adjective

دنك • (denk)

1. balanced, stable, in equilibrium, proportionately weighted on all dimensions and therefore unlikely to tip over

Derived terms

• دنك ایتمك (denk etmek, “to bale, to make up into bales”)
• دنك باغلامق (denk bağlamak, “to fasten the bales upon a horse”)
• دنك بوزمق (denk bozmak, “to open bales of merchandise”)
• دنك طاشی (denk taşı, “stone used as a counterpoise”)
• دنك قاچرمق (denk kaçırmak, “to smuggle goods”)
• دنك یاپمق (denk yapmak, “to bale, to make up into bales”)
• دنكلتمك (denkletmek, “to make or let be made up into bales”)
• دنكلشمك (denkleşmek, “to become properly balanced”)
• دنكلمك (denklemek, “to make up into bales”)
• دنكلنمك (denklenmek, “to be made up into bales”)

 

Related terms

• دكه‌مك (deñemek, “to try out, test”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: denk
• → Armenian: տէնկ (tēnk), դա̈նգ^յ (däng^y)
• → Romanian: teanc

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 754
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “denk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1163
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دنك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 230b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 582
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Æquilibrium”, 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 34
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2148
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “denk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 916