دكان

See also: دکان and دُکان

Arabic

دُكَّان

Etymology

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Aramaic דּוּכָּנָאbor.

Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān)

From Aramaic דּוּכָּנָא (dukkānā, “dais”), from Akkadian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu⁠/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠daggan⁠/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”). See also Hebrew דּוּכָן (dukhán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duk.kaːn/

• Audio:

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Noun

دُكَّان • (dukkān) m (plural دَكَاكِين (dakākīn))

1. dais, estrade
2. shop, store

Declension

Declension of noun دُكَّان (dukkān)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُكَّان dukkān	الدُّكَّان ad-dukkān	دُكَّان dukkān
nominative	دُكَّانٌ dukkānun	الدُّكَّانُ ad-dukkānu	دُكَّانُ dukkānu
accusative	دُكَّانًا dukkānan	الدُّكَّانَ ad-dukkāna	دُكَّانَ dukkāna
genitive	دُكَّانٍ dukkānin	الدُّكَّانِ ad-dukkāni	دُكَّانِ dukkāni
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دُكَّانَيْن dukkānayn	الدُّكَّانَيْن ad-dukkānayn	دُكَّانَيْ dukkānay
nominative	دُكَّانَانِ dukkānāni	الدُّكَّانَانِ ad-dukkānāni	دُكَّانَا dukkānā
accusative	دُكَّانَيْنِ dukkānayni	الدُّكَّانَيْنِ ad-dukkānayni	دُكَّانَيْ dukkānay
genitive	دُكَّانَيْنِ dukkānayni	الدُّكَّانَيْنِ ad-dukkānayni	دُكَّانَيْ dukkānay
plural	basic broken plural diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	دَكَاكِين dakākīn	الدَّكَاكِين ad-dakākīn	دَكَاكِين dakākīn
nominative	دَكَاكِينُ dakākīnu	الدَّكَاكِينُ ad-dakākīnu	دَكَاكِينُ dakākīnu
accusative	دَكَاكِينَ dakākīna	الدَّكَاكِينَ ad-dakākīna	دَكَاكِينَ dakākīna
genitive	دَكَاكِينَ dakākīna	الدَّكَاكِينِ ad-dakākīni	دَكَاكِينِ dakākīni

Synonyms

• حَانُوت (ḥānūt)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: դուքան (dukʻan), տուքան (tukʻan)
  • Armenian: դուքան (dukʻan), դուքյան (dukʻyan)
• → Georgian: დუქანი (dukani)
  • → Bats: დუქაჼ class dd (dukã)
  • → Ossetian: дукани (dukani)
• → Classical Persian: دکان (dukkān)
  • Persian: دکان (dokkân), دوکان (dukân)
  • Tajik: дӯкон (dükon)
  • → Early Assamese:
    • Middle Assamese:
      • Assamese: দোকান (dükan)
  • → Azerbaijani:

    Arabic script: دۆکان

    Cyrillic script: дүкан

    Latin script: dükan

  • → Old Bengali:
    • Middle Bengali:
      • Bengali: দোকান (dōkan)
  • → Chagatai:
    • Uyghur:

      Arabic script: دۇكان (dukan)

      Cyrillic script: дукан (dukan)

    • Uzbek:

      Cyrillic script: дўкон

      Latin script: doʻkon

  • → Crimean Tatar:

    Latin script: tükân

  • → Old Gujarati:
    • Middle Gujarati:
      • Gujarati: દુકાન (dukān)
  • → Old Hindi:
    • Hindi: दूकान (dūkān)
    • Urdu: دوکان (dūkān)
  • → Karaim: тӱкъан (tüqan)
  • → Kazakh:

    Arabic script: دۇكەن

    Cyrillic script: дүкен (düken)

  • → Kyrgyz:

    Cyrillic script: дүкөн (dükön)

  • → Old Marathi:
    • Marathi: दुकान (dukān)
  • → Nogai: туькен (tüken)
  • → Old Punjabi:
    • Punjabi: ਦੁਕਾਨ (dukān)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: دكان (dukkān /⁠dükkan⁠/) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Sindhi: دڪان (dukānu)
  • → Telugu: దుకాణము (dukāṇamu)
• → Spanish: adoquín
• → Swahili: duka

References

• “dwkn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 188
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “دكان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• տիւքքեան (dükkân), տիւքեան (dükân) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دکان (dukkān, “shop”), from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān, “dais; shop, store”), itself from Aramaic דּוּכָּנָא (dukkānā, “dais”).

Noun

دكان • (dükkân) (plural دكاكین (dekâkin))

1. shop, store, an establishment that sells goods or services to the public

   Synonym: مغازه (mağaza)

Derived terms

• آشجی دكانی (aşcı dükkânı, “eating house”)
• دكان آچمق (dükkân açmak, “to set up in business”)
• دكانجی (dükkâncı, “shopkeeper”)
• دكانچه (dükkânçe, “small shop”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dükkân
• → Abkhaz: адәқьан (adʷkʲan)
• → Albanian: dyqan
• → Armenian: տիւքեան (tiwkʻean)
• → Bulgarian: дюкя́н m (djukján)
• → Hungarian: duttyán
• → Laz: დუქქჲანი (dukkyani), ტუჭანი (ťuç̌ani) — Atina, დუკკანი (duǩǩani) — Chkhala, დუქჲქჲანი (dukykyani) — alternative spelling(phonetic spelling)
• → Macedonian: дуќан (duḱan)
• → Romanian: dugheană f
• → Russian: духа́н m (duxán)
  • → English: dukhan
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ду̀ћа̄н m

  Latin script: dùćān m

  • → Pannonian Rusyn: дутян m (dutjan)
• → Ukrainian: духа́н m (duxán)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dükkân”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1323
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “dükkân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 229
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دكان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Officina”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1197
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دكان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2104
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dükkân”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دكان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duk.kaːn/, [dukˈkæːn], [dukˈkaːn]

• Audio (Amman):

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Noun

دكّان • (dukkān) f (plural دكاكين (dakākīn))

1. shop, store

   Synonym: محلّ (maḥall)

Derived terms

• دكّانجي (dukkanji, “shopkeeper”)