سكی
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- سكو (sekü)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sekü (“dais, platform”); cognate with Azerbaijani səki, Bashkir һике (hike), Chuvash сак (sak), Hungarian szék, Kyrgyz секи (seki), Tatar сәке (säke) and Turkmen seki.
Noun
[edit]سكی • (seki)
- (architecture) pedestal, the base of a column or pillar
- Synonym: كرسی (kürsi)
- raised bank of earth in a tent serving as a couch, dais
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: seki
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seki2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4124
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 2646
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “seki1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1068