dikilmek

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیكلمك (dikilmek, to be sewed or stitched, to be planted, to be erected, for the eyes to become fixed upon an object, for a drink to be wholly drunk up),[1] from Ottoman Turkish دیكمك (dikmek, to sew, to stitch, to plant, to stick a thing into a thing, to fix the eyes on an object, to drink off), from Proto-Turkic *tik- (to plant vertically).[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.cilˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: di‧kil‧mek

Verb

dikilmek (third-person singular simple present dikilir)

  1. (intransitive) passive of dikmek
  2. (intransitive) To become erect, to get to or be put in a vertical position.
  3. (intransitive) To stand continuously.
  4. (intransitive) (for eyes) To become fixed at a particular point.
  5. (intransitive) To stand up against, to defy.
  6. (intransitive, physiology) (for some parts of the body) To become rigid and erect as a result of being engorged with blood.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • dikili
  • dikili taş
  • dikilip durmak

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 938
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dik-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dik-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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