خنک

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwnk' /⁠xunak⁠/, cool).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? xunak
Dari reading? xunak
Iranian reading? xonak
Tajik reading? xunak

Adjective

خُنَک • (xonak) (comparative خُنَک‌تَر (xonak-tar), superlative خُنَک‌تَرین (xonak-tarin))

  1. cool (of temperature)
    هوای خنکhavâ-ye xonakcool weather
  2. fresh

Further reading

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xunak”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خنک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 729a

Southwestern Fars

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [xoˈnekʲ] (Masarm, Deh Sarv)
  • IPA(key): [xoˈnok] (Kuzarg)

Adjective

خنک (xonek, xonok)

  1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) cool
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