# تكه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teke (“billy goat”); cognate with Bashkir тәкә (təkə), Kazakh теке (teke), Kyrgyz теке (teke), Southern Altai теке (teke), Tatar тәкә (täkä), Tuvan те (te), Uyghur تېكە (tëke) and Uzbek taka.

#### Noun

تكه • (teke) (definite accusative تكه‌یی (tekeyi), plural تكه‌لر (tekeler))
* billy goat, buck, billy, he-goat, an adult male of the species Capra hircus
    Synonyms: اركج (erkec), تیس (teys), نهاز (nihaz)
* prawn, any small aquatic crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata
    Synonym: دكز تكه‌سی (deñiz tekesi)

##### Derived terms

* اختیار تكه (ihtiyâr teke, “Alpine ibex”)
* تكه بورونلو (teke burunlu, “hook-nosed”)
* تكه صقالی (teke sakalı, “goat's-beard”)
* تكه عشیرتی (teke ʼâşireti, “Teke tribe”)
* تكه قاچقینی (teke kaçkını, “bastard”)
* تكه‌لك (tekelik, “the quality of a billy goat”)
* تكه‌لمك (tekelemek, “to be in heat (of goats)”)
* تكه‌لندرمك (tekelendirmek, “to make or let assume airs of importance”)
* تكه‌لنمك (tekelenmek, “to assume airs of importance”)
* تكه‌لو (tekeli, “having or possessing goats”)
* دكز تكه‌سی (deñiz tekesi, “shrimp”)
* یبانی تكه (yabanî teke, “Alpine ibex”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: teke
* → Armenian: թէքէ (tʻēkʻē)

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 481
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teke1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4695
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تكه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 164b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 396
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hædus”, 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, Vienna, column 684
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تكه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1354
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teke”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 584

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تِكَّة (tikka, “waistband”), itself from Aramaic תיכתא.

#### Noun

تكه • (tikke) (definite accusative تكه‌یی (tikkeyi), plural تكك (tikâk))
* waistband, a band or string passed through the hem in the upper part of trousers
    Synonym: اوچقور (uçkur)

#### Further reading

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تكه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1354
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 584

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

تكه • (tekke) (definite accusative تكه‌یی (tekkeyi), plural تكه‌لر (tekkeler))
* Alternative form of تكیه (tekye, “convent of dervishes”)

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 482
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 396
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تكه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1354
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 584