तर्क

Borrowed from Sanskrit तर्क (tarka).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /t̪əɾk/, [t̪ɐɾk]

तर्क • (tark) m

1. an argument, reasoning

   Antonym: वितर्क (vitark)

2. logic

   उसके सोच में कोई तर्क है ही नहीं।

   uske soc mẽ koī tark hai hī nahī̃.

   There is no logic in his thoughts.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तर्क”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *tarkás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tarkás, from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-. Cognate with Latin loquor (“to speak, talk”), Old Church Slavonic тлъкъ (tlŭkŭ, “interpreter”) and Old Irish do·tluchethar (“to ask”), ad·tluchedar (“to thank”).

Alternative, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”). Cognate with Latin torqueō (“to twist”), Hittite 𒋻𒌑𒍣 (tarúzi), Old Church Slavonic тракъ (trakŭ), Tocharian B tärk-, and possibly Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐɾ.kɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ɐɾ.kɐ/

तर्क • (tarká) stem, m

1. conjecture
2. reasoning, speculation, inquiry
3. doubt
4. system or doctrine founded on speculation or reasoning, philosophical system (especially the Nyāya system, but applicable also to any of the six Darśana)
5. logic, confutation (especially that kind of argument which consists in reduction to absurdity)

• अतर्क (a-tarka)
• कुतर्क (ku-tarka)
• दुस्तर्क (dus-tarka)
• रूपतर्क (rūpa-tarka)

• → Malayalam: തർക്കം (taṟkkaṁ)
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi: ਤੱਕ (takka)

• न्यायम् (nyāyam)

तर्क • (tarká) stem, n

1. a philosophical system

• Monier Williams (1899) “तर्क”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0439.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “TARK”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 633