اینک

Azerbaijani

Noun

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

  1. Arabic spelling of inək (cow)

Declension

Chagatai

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) (plural اینکلار)

  1. cow

Descendants

  • Uyghur: ئىنەك (inek)

Further reading

  • Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “اینک”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 141
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “اینک”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 80
  • el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “اینک”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 63
  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “اینک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources[4], Michigan Publishing, page 45

Persian

Alternative forms

  • نک (nak) (poetic contraction)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

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

Interjection

اینک • (inak)

  1. lo! behold!

Adverb

اینک • (inak)

  1. now; already; by now