دكة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Altered from دُكَّان (dukkān, dais, estrade), contaminated also with دَكَّ (dakka, to pound down).

Noun

دَكَّة or دِكَّة • (dakka or dikka) f (plural دِكَك (dikak)) (colloquial)

  1. a raised platform to bide upon
    1. a bench, a flat-topped structure on the outside of a house upon which one sits
    2. a tribune upon columns in a mosque for recitations by the imam, dikka
    3. a kind of brancard, a litter on which a bier is placed before its transferral to the tomb
    4. the spot on a building site where building material is stacked
  2. grit, crushed stone, ground ground
Declension
Descendants
  • English: dikka
  • Serbo-Croatian: dìkka

Noun

دِكَّة • (dikka) f (plural دِكَك (dikak))

  1. Alternative form of تِكَّة (tikka, waistband)
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دكة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 453b
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “دكة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 46a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دكة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 718b–719a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “دكة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 899b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “دكة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 333
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “دكة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 400
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