ink

See also: -ink and ink.

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”).

PronunciationEdit

enPR: ĭngk, IPA^(key): /ɪŋk/
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Homophone: inc.
Rhymes: -ɪŋk

NounEdit

ink (usually uncountable, plural inks)

A jar of ink.

A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
(countable) A particular type, color or container of this fluid.
The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
(slang, uncountable) Publicity.
The TSA has been getting a lot of ink lately.
- 1999, Washington Post (4 June 1999)
  [Judith] Hope […] has been getting ink by the barrelful with her regular interviews quoting conversations with the first lady, on subjects ranging from Senate ambitions to summer and post-White House living arrangements.
(slang, uncountable) Tattoo work.
- 1998, Richard Dooling, Brain Storm
  "I saw it hanging on the wall of a tattoo hut where I went to get some ink done ten years ago," he stuttered, flushing in splotches and squirming in his chair.
- 1998, The Offspring, Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (song)
  Now he's getting a tattoo. / Yeah, he's getting ink done. / He asked for a 13, / But they drew a 31.
(slang) Cheap red wine.

SynonymsEdit

(slang: publicity): ballyhoo, flak, hype, hoopla, plug, spotlight
(slang: tattoo work): paint

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from ink (noun)

TranslationsEdit

coloured fluid used for writing

Afrikaans: ink (af)
Albanian: bojë (sq)
Amharic: ቀለም (ḳäläm)
Arabic: حِبْر‎ (ar) (ḥibr), مِدَاد‎ (midād)
Egyptian Arabic: حبر‎ m (ḥebr)

Hijazi Arabic: حبر‎ m (ḥibir)

Moroccan Arabic: مْداد‎ m (mdad)
Aragonese: tinta f
Aramaic:
Hebrew: דיותא‎ f (dyōthā, dyōtho)

Syriac: ܕܝܘܬܐ‎ f (dyōthā, dyōtho)
Armenian: թանաք (hy) (tʿanakʿ)
Assamese: চিয়াঁহী (siãhi)
Asturian: tinta f
Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb (az)
Basque: tinta
Belarusian: чарні́ла n (čarníla), туш f (tuš)
Bengali: কালি (kali)
Bulgarian: мастило n (mastilo)
Burmese: မင် (my) (mang)
Catalan: tinta (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎦᏁᎯ ᏗᎨᏪᎶᏗ (ganehi digewelodi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 墨水 (zh) (mòshuǐ), 墨 (zh) (mò)
Corsican: inchjostru m
Crimean Tatar: mürekep
Czech: inkoust (cs) m
Dalmatian: inghiastro m
Danish: blæk (da) n
Dutch: inkt (nl) m
Esperanto: inko
Estonian: tint (et)
Ewe: inki
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: blekk n
Finnish: muste (fi)
French: encre (fr) f
Friulian: inğhustri
Galician: tinta (gl) f
Georgian: მელანი (melani)
German: Tinte (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌶𐌻 n (swartizl)
Greek: μελάνι (el) n (meláni)
Ancient: μέλαν n (mélan), μελάνιον n (melánion)
Greenlandic: pilikki
Gujarati: શાહી (śāhī)
Hausa: tawada (ha)
Hebrew: דְּיוֹ‎ (he) f (dyo)
Hindi: स्याही (hi) f (syāhī)
Hungarian: tinta (hu)
Icelandic: blek (is) n
Ido: inko (io)
Igbo: ehicha
Indonesian: tinta (id)
Interlingua: tinta
Interlingue: incre
Irish: dúch m
Italian: inchiostro (it) m
Japanese: 墨 (ja) (すみ, sumi), インク (ja) (inku)
Kannada: ಶಾಯಿ (kn) (śāyi)
Kazakh: сия (kk) (sïya)
Khmer: ទឹកខ្មៅ (km) (tɨk kmav)
Korean: 잉크 (ko) (ingkeu), 먹물 (meongmul)
Kurdish:
Sorani: مه‌ره‌که‌ب‎ (merekeb)
Kyrgyz: сыя (ky) (sıya)
Lao: ຫມຶກ (mưk)
Latin: atramentum n

Latvian: tinte f
Lithuanian: rašalas m, tušas m
Livonian: tint
Low German: Black
Luhya: luwino
Luxembourgish: Tënt f
Macedonian: мастило n (mastilo)
Malagasy: ranomainty (mg)
Malay: dakwat, mangsi, tinta
Malayalam: മഷി (ml) (maṣi)
Maltese: linka
Manx: doo m
Maori: māmangu, waituhi
Marathi: शाई f (śāī)
Mirandese: tinta f
Mongolian: бэх (mn) (beh)
Navajo: bee akʼeʼelchíhí tóhígíí
Ngazidja Comorian: wino class 11
Norman: encre f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blekk (no) n

Nynorsk: blekk n
Novial: inke
Occitan: tinta (oc) f
Old English: blæc n
Oriya: କାଳି (or) (kaḷi)
Pashto: ورېغ‎ m (wreǧ)
Persian: جوهر‎ (fa) (jowhar), مرکب‎ (fa) (morakkab)
Polish: atrament (pl) m, tusz (pl) m
Portuguese: tinta (pt) f
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: cerneală (ro) f
Russian: черни́ла (ru) n pl (černíla), тушь (ru) f (tušʹ)
Samoan: vaitusi
Santali: ᱥᱤᱭᱟᱦᱤ (siyahi)
Sardinian: tinta
Scottish Gaelic: dubh (gd) m, inc m, f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мастило n

Roman: mastilo (sh) n
Sicilian: nchiostru (scn) m
Sindhi: مَسُ‎ f (masu)
Sinhalese: තීන්ත (tīnta)
Slovak: atrament m
Slovene: črnilo (sl) n, tinta f
Somali: khad m
Spanish: tinta (es) f
Swahili: wino (sw)
Swedish: bläck (sv) n
Tagalog: tinta (tl)
Tajik: сиёҳӣ (tg) (siyohī)
Tamil: மையினால் (maiyiṉāl)
Telugu: సిరా (te) (sirā)
Thai: หมึก (mʉ̀k), น้ำหมึก
Tibetan: སྣག་ཚ (snag tsha), ཕྱག་སྣག (phyag snag) (honorific)
Turkish: mürekkep (tr)
Turkmen: syýa
Udi: танакӏ (tanaḳ)
Ukrainian: чорни́ло n (čornýlo), туш (uk) f (tuš), атрамент (uk) m (antráment)
Urdu: سیاہی‎ f (syāhī)
Uyghur: سىياھ‎ (siyah)
Uzbek: siyoh (uz)
Vietnamese: mực (vi)
Vilamovian: inkaojst
Volapük: nig (vo)
Walloon: intche (wa) f
Welsh: inc (cy) f
Yiddish: טינט‎ f (tint)

dark fluid ejected by squid etc

Basque: tinta
Catalan: tinta (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 墨魚汁, 墨鱼汁 (mak⁶ jyu⁴ zap¹), 墨汁 (mak⁶ zap¹) (also means ink prepared from Chinese inkstick)

Mandarin: 墨魚汁, 墨鱼汁 (mòyúzhī), 墨汁 (zh) (mòzhī) (also means ink prepared from Chinese inkstick), 烏賊墨汁, 乌贼墨汁 (wūzéi mòzhī) (Taiwan)
Dutch: inkt (nl) m
Estonian: tint (et)
Finnish: muste (fi)
French: encre (fr) f
Greek: μελάνι (el) n (meláni)
Hungarian: tinta (hu)
Italian: inchiostro (it) m