دكر

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَكَر (ḏakar).

Noun

دكر • (dakar) m

1. (especially of animals) male
2. displaying masculinity

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teġir (“value, worth”), a development of *tẹg- (“to cost, be worth”), whence دكمك (değmek, “to be worth”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəyər.

Noun

دگر • (değer)

1. value, worth, the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

   Synonym: قیمت (kıymet)

Derived terms

• دگرسز (değersiz, “worthless”)
• دگرلو (değerli, “valuable”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: değer
• → Armenian: տէյէր (tēyēr)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “değer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1128
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 226a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Valor”, 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 1715
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2105
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “değer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ذَكَر (ḏakar).

Noun

دكر • (dakar) m (plural دكور (dukūr))

1. Alternative form of ذكر (zakar)