هیكل

See also: هيكل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَيْكَل (haykal).

Noun

هیكل • (heykel) (plural هیاكل (heyekel))

  1. any gigantic form or figure, colossus
  2. any huge or colossal building, especially a temple
  3. statue, a three-dimensional artwork usually created by sculpting
  4. ossature, the skeletal framework of the human body

Derived terms

  • هیكلتراش (heykeltıraş, “sculptor”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: heykel

Further reading

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