سكی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سكو (sekü)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sekü (“dais, platform”); cognate with Azerbaijani səki, Bashkir һике (hike), Chuvash сак (sak), Hungarian szék, Kyrgyz секи (seki), Tatar сәке (säke) and Turkmen seki.

Noun

سكی • (seki)

1. (architecture) pedestal, the base of a column or pillar

   Synonym: كرسی (kürsi)

2. raised bank of earth in a tent serving as a couch, dais

Descendants

• Turkish: seki

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seki2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4124
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2646
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “seki1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1068