درنك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

• دیرنك (dernek)

Etymology

From Proto-Oghuz [Term?], cognate to the attested Karakhanid ترناك (térnek, “gathering place”).

Noun

درنك • (dernek)

1. gathering
2. gathering place

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: درنك (dernek), دیرنك (dernek)
  • Turkish: dernek
  • → Azerbaijani: dərnək
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: дернек

    Latin script: dernek

References

• “dernek, (dirnek, dernek yeri)”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume 2, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1965, page 1113
• Mahmud al-Kashgari (1072–1074), “ترناك”, in Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, published 1939–1943.

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دیرنك (dernek)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish درنك (dernek, “gathering”), from Proto-Turkic *tērnek (“gathering”), a development of *tēr- (“to collect, gather”), whence دیرمك (dermek, “to collect, gather”). Cognate with Karakhanid تِرْناكْ (tẹrnek).

Noun

درنك • (dernek)

1. convocation, assembly, meeting, reunion, any gathering of persons for a specific purpose

   Synonyms: اجتماع (ictimaʼ), انجمن (encümen), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), مجلس (meclis), محفل (mahfil)

Derived terms

• درنك اوی (dernek evi, “house where a gathering is held”)
• درنك ایتمك (dernek etmek, “to meet, collect together”)
• درنك یری (dernek yeri, “place where a gathering is held”)
• دوگون درنك (düğün dernek, “merry entertainment”)
• قارغه درنكی (karga derneği, “noisy meeting”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dernek
• → Azerbaijani: dərnək
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: дернек

  Latin script: dernek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dernek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1175
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “درنك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 222b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “درنك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Convocatio”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 282
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “درنك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2063
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dernek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “درنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 898