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Etymology
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ink well
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inkwell (plural inkwells
A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.
2011 Alan Bennett , “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books , XXXIII.15:The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell .
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container for ink
Arabic: دواة f ( dawāh ) , مِحْبَرَة f ( miḥbara )
Armenian: թանաքաման (hy) ( tʻanakʻaman )
Assamese: দোৱাত ( düat ) , মহী চুঙা ( mohi suṅa ) , মৈলাম ( moilam )
Azerbaijani: mürəkkəbqabı
Belarusian: чарні́ліца f ( čarnílica ) , калама́р m ( kalamár )
Breton: korn-liv
Bulgarian: масти́лница f ( mastílnica )
Catalan: tinter (ca) m ( used in both standard Catalan and Algherese )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 墨水池 ( mòshuǐchí ) , 墨水瓶 (zh) ( mòshuǐpíng )
Czech: kalamář (cs) m
Danish: blækhus n
Dutch: inktpot (nl) m
Esperanto: inkujo
Estonian: tindipott
Finnish: mustepullo (fi) ( bottle ) , musteastia ( other container )
French: encrier (fr) m
Galician: tinteiro (gl) m
Georgian: სამელნე ( samelne )
German: Tintenfass (de) n
Greek: μελανοδοχείο (el) n ( melanodocheío ) , καλαμάρι (el) n ( kalamári ) ( archaic )
Hebrew: קֶסֶת (he) f ( qéset ) , דְּיוֹתָה (he) f ( dyotá )
Hindi: दवात (hi) f ( davāt )
Hungarian: tintatartó (hu)
Icelandic: blekbytta f
Ido: inkuyo (io)
Irish: dúchán m
Italian: calamaio (it) m
Japanese: インク入れ ( インクいれ, inkuire ) , インク壺 ( インクつぼ, inkutsubo )
Kazakh: дәуіт ( däuıt ) , сиясауыт ( siäsauyt )
Khmer: ដបទឹកខ្មៅ ( dɑɑp tɨk khmaw )
Korean: 잉크병 (ko) ( ingkeubyeong ) , 잉크통 ( ingkeutong )
Kyrgyz: сыя челек ( sıya celek ) , сыя соот ( sıya soot )
Latvian: tintnīca f
Lithuanian: rašalinė f
Macedonian: масти́лница f ( mastílnica )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бэхийн сав ( bexiin sav )
Norman: encriyi m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blekkhus n
Old English: blæchorn m
Pashto: دوات (ps) m ( dewāt )
Persian:
Dari: دَوَات (fa) ( dawāt )
Iranian Persian: دَوات (fa) ( davât ) , آمِه (fa) ( âme )
Polish: kałamarz (pl) m
Portuguese: tinteiro (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਦਵਾਤ f ( davāt )
Shahmukhi: دَوَات f
Romanian: călimară (ro) f
Russian: черни́льница (ru) f ( černílʹnica )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: tintèri
Logudorese: tintèri
Sassarese: tintèri caramàiu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мастионица f
Roman: mastionica (sh) f
Slovak: kalamár m
Slovene: črnilnik m
Spanish: tintero (es) m
Swedish: bläckhorn (sv) n
Tagalog: dingsulan tintero tinteruhan
Tajik: давот ( davot ) , сиёҳидон ( siyohidon )
Thai: ที่ใส่หมึก
Turkish: hokka (tr)
Ukrainian: чорни́льниця f ( čornýlʹnycja ) , калама́р (uk) m ( kalamár )
Urdu: دَوات f ( davāt ) , سِیاہی دان m ( siyāhī dān )
Uyghur: سىياھدان ( siyahdan )
Uzbek: siyohdon (uz)
Vietnamese: lọ mực bình mực
Volapük: nigiär (vo)
Welsh: pot inc m
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