دولك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tölek (“tranquil, sedate, quiet”) and thus related to دولنمك (dölenmek, “to rest, calm down”); cognate with Chuvash тӳлек (tülek), Chagatai [script needed] (tölek) and Middle Mongol [script needed] (dolüeyen).

Adjective

دولك • (dölek)

1. quiet, calm, peaceful, tranquil, placid

   Synonyms: حضورلو (huzurlu), ساكن (sakin)

2. composed, even-minded, well-behaved, self-possessed

   Synonym: تمکینلو (temkinli)

3. grave, serious, sedate, staid, earnest

   Synonym: آغر (ağır)

Descendants

• Turkish: dölek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dölek1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1285
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dölek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دولك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 927

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tüglek, from *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”), the same root of دوگوم (düğüm, “knot”).

Alternative forms

• دوگلك (düğlek)

Noun

دولك • (dülek)

1. small or stunted melon
2. nave, the hub of a wheel

   Synonym: پویرا (poyra)

Derived terms

• قارغه دولكی (karga düleği, “squirting cucumber”)
• كومرن دولكی (kümran düleği, “long birthwort”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dülek
• → Romanian: dovleac
• → Hungarian: döblec

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dülek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1323
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دولك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 591
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Pepo”, 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 1266
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دولك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2189
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دولك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 927