पीक

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan. Compare Bengali পিক (pik, “spit”), Assamese পিক (pik, “spit of juice of betel, spit”), Gujarati પિક (pik, “saliva”).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /piːk/

Noun

पीक • (pīk) f

1. juice from paan (a snack made from betel leaf) that is often spat out

Declension

Declension of पीक (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पीक pīk	पीकें pīkẽ
oblique	पीक pīk	पीकों pīkõ
vocative	पीक pīk	पीको pīko

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पीक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 624
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pikkā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press