एक

Hindi

Etymology

From Sanskrit एक (éka) (or a closely related Old-Indo-Aryan language, through Prakrit), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haykas (compare Persian یک (yek)), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)óykos.

Numeral

Hindi cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : एक     Ordinal : पहला

एक • (ek), Urdu spelling: ایک

1. (cardinal) one; 1

Adjective

एक • (ek) , Urdu spelling: ایک

1. one
2. a
3. sole
4. only

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haykas, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)óykos. Cognates include Old Latin oinos (Classical Latin ūnus), Ancient Greek οἶος (oios) and Old English ān (English one and an).

Numeral

एक (éka)

1. one

Adjective

एक (éka)

1. (with and without एव (eva)) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only
2. the same, one and the same, identical
3. one of two or many
4. single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent
5. sincere, truthful
6. little, small
7. (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an

Noun

एक (éka) m

1. name of a teacher
2. name of a son of रय (Raya)

Noun

एक (éka) n

1. unity, a unit (at the end of a compound)

Descendants

• Bengali: এক
• Hindi: एक
• Urdu: ایک

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 0227