تکیه

See also: تكیه and تكية

Azerbaijani

Noun

تکیه

Arabic spelling of təkyə

Persian

Etymology

From the Arabic verb إتكأ (itakâ, “leaned on”). This root has also spawned (motakâ, “bolster pillow”) from Arabic مُتَّكَأ (muttakaʔ, “a place where one reclines; pad, bolster, cushion”) and expresses religious symbolism associated with it through the life-sustaining concept of “leaning upon God”.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tak.ˈja/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.jǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.jǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.jǽ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰækʲ.jé]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäk.jǽ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	takya
Dari reading^?	takya
Iranian reading^?	takye
Tajik reading^?	takya

Noun


Iranian Persian	تکیه
Dari	تکیه
Tajik	такя

تکیه • (takye) (plural تکیه‌ها)

leaning, reclining
support, cushion
(religion) takya
Synonym: تکیه‌خانه (takye-xâne)
1. (original sense, obsolete in Iran) place for Sufi gatherings
  Synonym: خانقاه (xânaqâh)
3. building where Shia Muslims gather to mourn the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram; husayniyya
  Synonym: حسینیه (hoseyniye)
(linguistics) stress

Derived terms

تَکیه‌نِشین (takye-nešin)
تکیه‌خانه (takye-xâne)
تکیه‌دار (takye-dâr)
تکیه‌کلام (takye-kalâm)
تکیه‌گاه (takye-gâh)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: təkyə
→ Bengali: তাকিয়া (takiẏa)
→ Chagatai: تَكیه
- Uyghur: تەكيە (tekye)
- Uzbek: takya
→ English: takya, takyeh, takyé
→ Gujarati: તકિયો (takiyo)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: तकिया (takiyā)

Urdu: تَکْیَہ (takya)
→ Malayalam: തക്യാവ് (takyāvŭ)
→ Nepali: तकिया (takiyā)
→ Odia: ତକିଆ (takiā)
→ Ottoman Turkish: تَكیه (tekye) (see there for further descendants)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਤਕੀਆ (takīā)

Shahmukhi script: تَکْیَہ (takyah)
→ Sindhi: تَڪْيو (takyo)

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تکیه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تکیه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul