खनक

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kʰə.nək/,

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit खनक (khanaka).

खनक • (khanak) m (rare, formal)

1. one who digs, digger, excavator
2. a miner
3. a house-breaker, thief
4. a mouse, rat

   Synonyms: चूहा (cūhā), मूषक (mūṣak), मूश (mūś), पिंग (piṅg)

From खनकना (khanaknā, “to clink, jingle, clash, clatter”, verb), which is from Sanskrit खणखणायते (khaṇakhaṇāyate), from खणखणाय (khaṇakhaṇāya, “to utter or give out any peculiar sound, tick, tinkle, crack”, root), which is an onomatopoeia.

खनक • (khanak) f (Urdu spelling کھنک)

1. a ringing, clinking, jingling, tinkling, clashing or clanking sound
2. clattering (as of dishes)
3. the sound of wind

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “खनक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “खनक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “खनक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From खन् (khan, root) +‎ -अक (-aka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʰɐ.nɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɐ.n̪ɐ.kɐ/

खनक • (khanaka) stem, m

1. one who digs, digger, excavator
2. a miner
3. a house-breaker, thief
4. a mouse, rat

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:मूषक

• → Telugu: ఖనకుడు (khanakuḍu)
• → Hindi: खनक (khanak) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “खनक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 336.