تکیه

Persian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

تکیه • (tekye)

1. leaning, reclining
2. support, cushion

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तकिया (takiyā)

  Urdu: تکیا (takyā)

• → Ottoman Turkish: تكیه (tekye), تكه (tekke)
  • Turkish: tekke
  • → Arabic: تَكِيَّة (takiyya)
    • → Chinese: 塔基亚 (tǎjīyà)
    • → English: takiyya, takiyah, takīyah
  • → Bulgarian: текия (tekija)
  • → English: tekye, tekyeh, tekke
  • → Macedonian: текија (tekija)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тѐкија

    Latin script: tèkija

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تکیه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul