diz çökmek

From Ottoman Turkish دیز چوكمك (diz çökmek, “to kneel down”),^[1] from دیز (diz, “knee”) and چوكمك (çökmek, “to collapse, to kneel or crouch down”), equivalent to diz +‎ çökmek. Cognates with Azerbaijani diz çökmək, Uzbek tiz choʻkmoq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiz.t͡ʃœc.mec/
• Hyphenation: diz‧çök‧mek

diz çökmek (third-person singular simple present diz çöker)

1. (intransitive) To sit down by putting one's knees down; to kneel down.
2. (intransitive, with dative) To bow down, to bend the knee, to genuflect.

   Synonyms: dize gelmek, baş eğmek, boyun eğmek

• “diz çökmek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “diz çökmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1251