See also: тёк

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic تەك
Cyrillic тек
Latin tek

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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тек (tek)

  1. breed, race, origin
  2. (taxonomy) genus
Declension
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Etymology 2

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Adverb

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тек (tek)

  1. for nothing, in vain
  2. only

Kumyk

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk.

Adjective

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тек (tek)

  1. single, sole, only
  2. unique
  3. alone

Conjunction

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тек (tek)

  1. but, however
  2. just, merely

Further reading

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  • Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “тек”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk

Noun

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тек (tek) (Arabic spelling تەك)

  1. ancestry, genesis, origin

Declension

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Macedonian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

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Noun

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тек (tekm (relational adjective течен or тековен)

  1. current, flow, course, stream
  2. duration
  3. trend

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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те̏к (Latin spelling tȅk)

  1. only, not earlier than, not before
  2. hardly, scarcely

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tękъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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те̑к m (Latin spelling tȇk)

  1. appetite
  2. taste, flavour
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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk, Proto-Turkic *tēk.

Adverb

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тек (tek)

  1. in vain

Derived terms

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References

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тек”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN