دیبك

Ottoman Turkish

دیبك

Etymology

A derivation from Proto-Turkic *tǖp (“bottom, root”), whence also Ottoman Turkish دیب (dib, dip, “bottom”).

Noun

دیبك • (dibek) (definite accusative دیبكی (dibeği), plural دیبكلر (dibekler))

1. large mortar of stone, being in some places communal property, used with a large wooden rod for pestle called طوقماق (tokmak)

   Synonyms: هوان (havan), یانه (yane)

Derived terms

• دیبكخانه (dibekhâne, “pounding-mill”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dibek
• → Albanian: dybek, dylbek
• → Armenian: տիպեկ (tipek)
• → Bulgarian: дибе́к (dibék)
• → Macedonian: дибек (dibek)
• → Romanian: durbácă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дѝбек

  Latin script: dìbek

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دیبك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 775
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dibek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1209
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دیبك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 239a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیبك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 595
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mortarium”, 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 1085
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دیبك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2208
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dibek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیبك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 932