تکیه

See also: تكیه and تكية

Azerbaijani

Noun

تکیه

1. Arabic spelling of təkyə

Persian

Etymology

From the Arabic verb إتكأ (itakâ, “leaned on”). This root has also spawned متکا (motakâ, “bolster pillow”) from Arabic مُتَّكَأ (muttakaʔ, “a place where one reclines; pad, bolster, cushion”) and expresses religious symbolism associated with it through the life-sustaining concept of “leaning upon God”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tak.ˈja/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.já]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.já]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.já]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.já]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰækʲ.jé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.já]

Readings
Classical reading?	takya
Dari reading?	takya
Iranian reading?	takye
Tajik reading?	takya

Noun

Dari	تکیه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	такя

تکیه • (takye) (plural تکیه‌ها)

1. leaning, reclining
2. support, cushion
3. (religion) takya

   Synonym: تکیه‌خانه (takye-xâne)

   1. (original sense, obsolete in Iran) place for Sufi gatherings

      Synonym: خانقاه (xânaqâh)

   3. building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram; husayniyya

      Synonym: حسینیه (hoseyniye)

4. (linguistics) stress

Derived terms

• تَکیه‌نِشین (takye-nešin)
• تکیه‌خانه (takye-xâne)
• تکیه‌دار (takye-dâr)
• تکیه‌کلام (takye-kalâm)
• تکیه‌گاه (takye-gâh)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: təkyə
• → Bengali: তাকিয়া (takiẏa)
• → Chagatai: تَكیه
  • Uyghur: تەكيە (tekye)
  • Uzbek: takya
• → English: takya, takyeh, takyé
• → Gujarati: તકિયો (takiyo)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तकिया (takiyā)

  Urdu: تَکْیَہ (takya)

• → Malayalam: തക്യാവ് (takyāvŭ)
• → Nepali: तकिया (takiyā)
• → Odia: ତକିଆ (takiā)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تَكیه (tekye) (see there for further descendants)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤਕੀਆ (takīā)

  Shahmukhi script: تَکْیَہ (takyah)

• → Sindhi: تَڪْيو (takyo)

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “تکیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تکیه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul