دیرسك

Ottoman Turkish

دیرسك

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tirsgek (“elbow”); cognate with Azerbaijani dirsək, Bashkir терһәк (terhək), 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”)
• دیرسكه طیانمق (dirseğe dayanmak, “to lean on one's elbow”)

 

Descendants

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

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 2211
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dirsek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیرسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 934