тек

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Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic تەك
Cyrillic тек
Latin tek

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

тек (tek)

  1. breed, race, origin
  2. (taxonomy) genus
Declension

Etymology 2

Adverb

тек (tek)

  1. for nothing, in vain
  2. only

Kumyk

Etymology

From Common Turkic *tēk.

Adjective

тек (tek)

  1. single, sole, only
  2. unique
  3. alone

Conjunction

тек (tek)

  1. but, however
  2. just, merely

Further reading

  • Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “тек”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

Kyrgyz

Etymology

From Common Turkic *tēk

Noun

тек (tek) (Arabic spelling تەك)

  1. ancestry, genesis, origin

Declension

Derived terms

Macedonian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

тек (tekm (relational adjective течен or тековен)

  1. current, flow, course, stream
  2. duration
  3. trend

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

Pronunciation

Adverb

те̏к (Latin spelling tȅk)

  1. only, not earlier than, not before
  2. hardly, scarcely

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tękъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

те̑к m (Latin spelling tȇk)

  1. appetite
  2. taste, flavour
Declension

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Common Turkic *tēk, Proto-Turkic *tēk.

Adverb

тек (tek)

  1. in vain

Derived terms

References

тек”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN