اینك
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- انك (inek)
Etymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek, “cow”), Azerbaijani inək, Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Kyrgyz инек (inek, “cow”), Tuvan инек (inek), Uyghur ئىنەك (inek) and Hungarian ünő (“heifer; hind, doe”).
Noun
editاینك • (inek)
- cow, an adult female of the species Bos taurus
- (derogatory) stupid or foolish woman
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Turkish: inek
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2177
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 228
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vacca”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 1709
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 616
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 310