Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Turkish tekke.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tekke.

Examples

  • The site was/is? also sacred to the Sufis - a "heretic" sect of Islam who worshipped the goddess principle in all creation: The term tekke convent applies to a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and may have referred to an earlier feature of the location.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • There's a map at the front from which I learn that his Museum is about two hundred metres from my fictional Adem Dede tekke in The Dervish House.

    veg talk, and some books 2010

  • There's a map at the front from which I learn that his Museum is about two hundred metres from my fictional Adem Dede tekke in The Dervish House.

    ianmcdonald: veg talk, and some books ianmcdonald 2010

  • Monday I'm off on the annual Balkan turkoid-Romani-dervish tekke crawl through the south balkans.

    languagehat.com: THE ENGLISH GYPSIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE. 2005

  • Such attractions as the buildings possess are due rather to the richly coloured tiles with which many of them are adorned, or to inscriptions, like the Kufic inscription, dated A.D. 944, on the ruined _tekke_ of the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Isaurian, and buried in a tekke of Bektashi dervishes founded by the mother of the Seljukian sultan, Aladdin the Great.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Kprobeer ffkes te tekke op de koer van men sgool Moretus en drna PROBEREK TE APPELE (ni op dien andere lette: p) gf ma wa tips age wilt ze!!

    WN.com - Articles related to Nigeria striker Martins joins Russian champions 2010

  • MALALLI HAKAN (ayas tekke koyu alem) ayas tekke ayaslı emre yenıkentlı nadır peceneklı suleyman ortaberket ayaslı serhat ömer faruk bostan cubuklu yasar sıncanlı yener saraycıklı okan malallı hakan eryamanlı ferhat sıncanlı erkal ankara ayas ortaberket sınanlı oltan kasaba gudullu ergun mustafa basayas yenıkent yalıkent yapracık ballıkuyumcu sıncan saraycık fatıh ankar alemlerı eydost saray parlement yenıay elhamra ayaslı emre

    WN.com - Articles related to Nigeria striker Martins joins Russian champions 2010

  • Drag to Playlist sircali tekke avcilari 1 tekkeden av videosu tarih yazdik bu gun hasilat 3 tavsan 2 yaban kazi 1 culluk (hokkese)

    WN.com - Articles related to Nigeria striker Martins joins Russian champions 2010

  • Drag to Playlist ayaslı emre (ayas tekke koyu alem) ayas tekke ayaslı emre yenıkentlı nadır peceneklı suleyman ortaberket ayaslı serhat ömer faruk bostan cubuklu yasar sıncanlı yener saraycıklı okan malallı hakan eryamanlı ferhat sıncanlı erkal ankara ayas ortaberket sınanlı oltan kasaba gudullu ergun mustafa basayas yenıkent yalıkent yapracık ballıkuyumcu sıncan saraycık fatıh ankar alemlerı eydost saray parlement yenıay elhamra ayaslı emre (ayas tekke koyu alem) fatih tekkenin fc zenitteki goruntuleri, iyi seyiler herkese

    WN.com - Articles related to Nigeria striker Martins joins Russian champions 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • "Every tekke, or prayer lodge, of the dervishes had a garden which was shielded from the outside by exterior walls. The garden was a heart to the many buildings which, like the projecting wings of a great bird, would make up the tekke."

    - Shems Friedlander, 'Graze in the Meadows of the Garden', rumisociety.com.

    October 31, 2008