اینك

Ottoman Turkish

اینك

Alternative forms

• انك (inek)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek, “cow”), Azerbaijani inək, Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Kyrgyz инек (inek, “cow”), Tuvan инек (inek), Uyghur ئىنەك (inek) and Hungarian ünő (“heifer; hind, doe”).

Noun

اینك • (inek)

1. cow, an adult female of the species Bos taurus
2. (derogatory) stupid or foolish woman

Derived terms

• اینكجی (inekçi, “cow-keeper”)
• اینكلك (ineklik, “quality of a cow”)
• اینكلنمك (ineklenmek, “to become a cow”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: inek

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2177
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 228
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vacca”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1709
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اینك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 616
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 310