اینك
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- انك (inek)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ایكك (iŋäk), from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰤𐰏𐰛 (ingek), Azerbaijani inək, Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Kyrgyz инек (inek), Tuvan инек (inek), Uyghur ئىنەك (inek) and Uyghur ئىنەك (inek).
Noun
[edit]اینك • (inek) (definite accusative اینكی (ineği), plural اینكلر (inekler))
- cow, an adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved, usually kept to produce milk
- Synonym: كاو (gav)
- (derogatory) cow, a woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered stupid or foolish
Derived terms
[edit]- اینكجی (inekci, “cowherd, cow-keeper”)
- اینكلك (ineklik, “stupidity”)
- اینكلنمك (ineklenmek, “to become a cow”)
- جاموس اینكی (camus ineği, “female buffalo”)
- وفاسز دوست سوتسز اینك (vefâsız dost sütsüz inek, literally “a faithless friend (is like a) milkless cow”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: inek
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اینك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 245
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2177
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اینك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 96b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], 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[3], 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[4], Vienna, column 616
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “inek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 310
Categories:
- Ottoman Turkish terms inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Old Anatolian Turkish
- Ottoman Turkish terms inherited from Proto-Turkic
- Ottoman Turkish terms derived from Proto-Turkic
- Ottoman Turkish lemmas
- Ottoman Turkish nouns
- Ottoman Turkish derogatory terms
- ota:Bovines
- ota:Female animals