اینک
Azerbaijani edit
Noun edit
اینک (inək) (definite accusative اینیی (inəyi), plural اینکلر (inəklər))
Declension edit
Chagatai edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Karakhanid انكك (ingek), from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”). Cognate with Azerbaijani inək, Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Kyrgyz инек (inek, “cow”), Tuvan инек (inek), and Turkish inek.
Noun edit
اینک (inäk)
Descendants edit
- Uyghur: ئىنەك (inek)
Further reading edit
- Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “اینک”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary][1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 141
- Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “اینک”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 80
- el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “اینک”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary][3] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 63
- Schluessel, Eric (2018) “اینک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources[4], Michigan Publishing, page 45
Persian edit
Alternative forms edit
- نک (nak) (poetic contraction)
Etymology edit
این (in) + ـک (-ak, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʔiː.ˈnak]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔiː.nǽkʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔi.nǽk]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | īnak |
| Dari reading? | īnak |
| Iranian reading? | inak |
| Tajik reading? | inak |
Interjection edit
اینک • (inak)
- lo! behold!
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 189:
- اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم
چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم- īnak īn xal'at bigīr u zar u sīm
čōn biyāyi xās bāšī u nadīm - Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest [to the king], thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.
- īnak īn xal'at bigīr u zar u sīm
Adverb edit
اینک • (inak)