# دكنك
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegenek.

### Noun

دَكَنَكْ (dägänäk)
* cane, stick, wand

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: dəyənək
* Gagauz: deynek
* Ottoman Turkish: دكنك (değenek)
** Turkish: değnek
** → Armenian: դագանակ (daganak), տէյնէկ (tēynēk), դա̈գա̈նա̈կ (dägänäk), դըգ$^յ$ա̈նա̈կ (dəg$^y$änäk), դիգ$^յ$ա̈նա̈կ (dig$^y$änäk), դըգ$^յ$անակ (dəg$^y$anak), դիգ$^յ$անակ (dig$^y$anak) — dialectal
** → Georgian: დოღანაგი (doɣanagi)
** → Greek: δεκανίκι (dekaníki)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: дегенек
    Latin script: degenek

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكَنَكْ (dägänäk), from Proto-Turkic *tegenek (“stick, cane”), a development of *teg- (“to reach, achieve, touch”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəyənək and Turkmen degenek.

### Noun

دكنك • (değenek) (definite accusative دكنكی (değeneği), plural دكنكلر (değenekler))
* stick, wand, cane, an elongated piece of wood, typically put to some use
    Synonyms: آغاج (ağac), عصا (ʼasa)
* ferule, a ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap children on the hand
    Synonym: صوپه (sopa)
* bastinado, a corporal punishment consisting of a blow or a beating with sticks
    Synonyms: صوپه (sopa), طیاق (dayak), كوتك (kötek)

#### Derived terms

* ال دكنكی (el değeneği, “staff, wand”)
* دكنك اورمق (değenek urmak, “to strike with a stick”)
* دكنك باصمق (değenek basmak, “to strike with a stick”)
* دكنك چالمق (değenek çalmak, “to strike with a stick”)
* دكنك یمك (değenek yemek, “to be struck with a stick”)
* دكنكجی (değenekci, “batoneer”)
* دكنكلی (değenekli, “provided with a stick”)
* قولتق دكنكی (koltuk değeneği, “crutch”)
* چوبان دكنكی (çoban değeneği, “crook; knotgrass”)

#### Related terms

* دكمك (değmek, “to reach; to achieve; to touch”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: değnek
* → Armenian: դագանակ (daganak), տէյնէկ (tēynēk), դա̈գա̈նա̈կ (dägänäk), դըգ$^յ$ա̈նա̈կ (dəg$^y$änäk), դիգ$^յ$ա̈նա̈կ (dig$^y$änäk), դըգ$^յ$անակ (dəg$^y$anak), դիգ$^յ$անակ (dig$^y$anak) — dialectal
* → Georgian: დოღანაგი (doɣanagi)
* → Greek: δεκανίκι (dekaníki)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: дегенек
    Latin script: degenek

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دكنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 748
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “değnek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1132
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دكنك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 227a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 577
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Baculus”, 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 112
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دكنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2113
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “değnek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دكنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 910