# دك
## Arabic
### Etymology

Compare Hebrew דיכא (to crush).

### Verb

دَكَّ • (dakka) I (non-past يَدُكُّ (yadukku), verbal noun دَكّ (dakk))
* alternative form of دَقَّ (daqqa, “to crush, to pound, to beat, to press down”)
* to fill by pressing into, to fill up with earth or the like, for example to charge (i.e. to fill the charge into) a firearm (which was done with the مِدَكّ (midakk, “ramrod”))

#### Conjugation
### Noun

دَكّ • (dakk) m
* verbal noun of دَكَّ (dakka) (form I), alternative form of دَقّ (daqq)

#### Declension
### Noun

دَكّ • (dakk) m (plural دِكَاك (dikāk) or دُكُوك (dukūk))
* level and depressed ground, even earth

#### Declension
### Noun

دُكّ • (dukk) m (plural دِكَكَة (dikaka))
* elevating mass of earth, mound

#### Declension
### Adjective

دُكّ • (dukk) c pl
* common plural of أَدَكّ (ʔadakk, “of a pressed-down back”)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “دك”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 453
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “دك”, 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 45b
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “دك”, 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 C$^{ie}$, page 718
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “دك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 898c
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “دك”, 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) “دك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 400

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teŋ, from Proto-Turkic *teg-. Related to دكمك (dägmäk, “to touch”).

#### Adjective

دَكْ (däŋ)
* equal (by weight)
* (figurative) alike, equal, at the same level
    Synonym: اش (eş)
* proper, appropriate

#### Noun

دَكْ (däŋ)
* weight
* a weight measurement unit equivalent to 0,80175 grams

##### Derived terms

* دَكَمَكْ
* دَكْسُزْ
* دَكْلُو

#### Descendants

* Gagauz: denk, den, deng
* Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk)
** Turkish: denk
** → Armenian: տէնկ (tēnk), դա̈նգ$^յ$ (däng$^y$)
** → Romanian: teanc

#### Further reading

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “denk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* “denk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tẹg, from Proto-Turkic *tẹg-.

#### Adverb

دَكْ (däk)
* until

##### Descendants

* Ottoman Turkish: دك (dek)
** Turkish: dek

#### Further reading

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

دك • (dik)
* alternative spelling of دیك (dik)

#### Adverb

دك • (dik)
* alternative spelling of دیك (dik)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic, cognate to Kazakh дейін (deiın) and Bashkir тиклем (tiklem) which see.

#### Alternative forms

* دگین (degin)

#### Adverb

دك • (dek)
* until, till, up to

##### Descendants

* Turkish: dek

### Further reading

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2103–2104