دستك

Borrowed from Persian دستک (dastak, “little hand”).

دستك • (destek)

1. little hand or arm
2. stick or beam used as a prop

   Synonym: دیرك (direk)

3. (figuratively) supporter, backer

• دستك امرمق (destek örmek, “to put a prop or support”)

• Turkish: destek
• → Armenian: տեստեկ (testek)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “destek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1181
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دستك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 572
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دستك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2078
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “destek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دستك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 902