تنک

See also: بنك, تنك, بنگ, and تنگ

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tnwk' /⁠tanuk⁠/, “thin, shallow”), from Proto-Iranian *tanúkakah, from Proto-Indo-European *tn̥h₂ukos ~ ténh₂ukos (“thin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ta.nuk], [tu.nuk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊ.nʊk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊ.nʊk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰʊ.nʊk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰu.nuk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰo.nokʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰu.nuk]

Readings
Classical reading?	tanuk, tunuk
Dari reading?	tunuk
Iranian reading?	tonok
Tajik reading?	tunuk

Adjective

تنک • (tonok)

1. thin

Derived terms

• تنکه (toneke, “underwear”)
• تنک‌بیز (tanuk-bēz), also تنگ‌بیز (tang-bēz, “sieve”)
• تنک‌ظرف (tanuk-zarf, “dimwit; tattler”)

Related terms

• تنگ (tang, “narrow”)

References

• Cantera, Alberto (2009) “On the History of Middle Persian Nominal Inflection”, in Exegisti Monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 19
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تنک”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 329b