هیكل

See also: هيكل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal, “temple; structure, framework”).

Noun

هیكل • (heykel) (plural هیاكل (heyekel))

1. any gigantic form or figure, colossus
2. any huge or colossal building, especially a temple
3. statue, a three-dimensional artwork usually created by sculpting
4. ossature, the skeletal framework of the human body

Derived terms

• هیكلتراش (heykeltıraş, “sculptor”)

Descendants

• Turkish: heykel

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “heykel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1941
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هیكل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1332
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Figura”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 576
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “هیكل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5524
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “heykel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هیكل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2176