اینک

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic инәк
Abjad اینک‎

Noun

اینک (inək) (definite accusative اینیی‎ (inəyi), plural اینکلر‎ (inəklər))

  1. Arabic spelling of inək (“cow”)

Declension
Declension of اینک‎
singular plural
nominative اینک‎ اینکلر‎
definite accusative اینیی‎ اینکلری‎
dative اینیه‎ اینکلره‎
locative اینکده‎ اینکلرده‎
ablative اینکدن‎ اینکلردن‎
definite genitive اینیین‎ اینکلرین‎

Chagatai
اینک

Etymology

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

اینک (inäk)

  1. cow

Descendants
  • Uyghur: ئىنەك‎‎ (inek‎)

Further reading
  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870), “اینک”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 141
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1964), “اینک”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary (in English), C.W.K. Gleerup, page 80
  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881), “اینک”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 63
  • Schluessel, Eric (2018), “اینک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources, Michigan Publishing, page 45

Persian

Alternative forms
  • نک‎ (nak) (poetic contraction)

Etymology

این‎ (in) +‎ ـک‎ (-ak, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔiː.nǽk]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔiː.nǽk]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔi.nǽk]

Readings
Classical reading? īnak
Dari reading? īnak
Iranian reading? inak
Tajik reading? inak

Interjection

اینک • (inak)

  1. 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.

Adverb

اینک • (inak)

  1. now; already; by now
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