یک
Gilaki
Numeral
یک (yek)
Mazanderani
Numeral
یک (yak)
Persian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾywk' /yak/), 𐫏𐫐 (yk /yak/), from Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾy /ē/), 𐭧𐭣 (HD), 𐫙𐫏𐫇 (ʿyw /ēw/), from Proto-Iranian *Háywah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, from Proto-Indo-European *óywos.
Indo-European cognates include Bactrian ιωγο, Sanskrit एक (eka), Ancient Greek οἶος (oîos), German ein, French un, English one, Latin ūnus, etc.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ˈjak/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [jäk]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [jekʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [jäk]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | yak |
| Dari reading? | yak |
| Iranian reading? | yek |
| Tajik reading? | yak |
Audio (Iran): (file) - Rhymes: -ak, (In Iran) -ek
Numeral
| 10 | ||||
| ← 0 | ۱ 1 |
2 → | 10 → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: یک (yek) Ordinal: اَوَّل (avval) | ||||
یک • (yak / yek) (Persian numeral ۱, Tajik spelling як)
Noun
یک • (yak / yek) (Tajik spelling як)
Derived terms
- یکا (yakā / yekâ)
- یکای کیهانی (yakā-yi kayhānī / yekâ-ye keyhâni)
- یکبار (yakbār / yekbâr)
- یکبار دیگر (yakbār dīgar / yekbâr digar)
- یکتا (yaktā / yektâ)
- یکتائی (yaktā'ī / yektâ'i)
- یکتاپرست (yaktā-parast / yektâ-parast)
- یکتاپرستانه (yaktā-parastāna / yektâ-parastâne)
- یکتاپرستی (yaktā-parastī / yektâ-parasti)
- یکدفعه (yakdaf'a / yekdaf'e)
- یکدل (yakdil / yekdel)
- یکدیگر (yakdīgar / yekdigar)
- یکم (yakum / yekom)
- یکی (yakē / yeki)
- یکی بود یکی نبود (yakē būd yakē nabūd / yeki bud yeki nabud)
- یکرنگ (yak-rang / yek-rang)
- یکشنبه (yak-šanba / yek-šanbe)
- یگانه (yagāna / yegâne)
- یگانگی (yagānagī / yegânegi)
Descendants
- → Chagatai: یَک
- Uyghur: يەك (yek)
- Uzbek: yak
- → Hindustani:
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: یك (yek, yẹk)
- → Punjabi: یَک (yak)
References
- Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) “*¹aiu̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 136
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian یَک (yak).
Numeral
یَک • (yak)
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “یک”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian یَک (yak).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /jək/
Numeral
یَک • (yak) (Hindi spelling यक)
Further reading
- Platts, John T. (1884) “يك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- “یک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.