خنک

See also: چنگ, خنگ, حنك, جنک, جنگ, جنګ, and جنك

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwnk' /⁠xunak⁠/, “cool”), Northern Luri هونک (honek).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xu.ˈnak/, /xu.ˈnuk/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.nʊ́k]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.nʊ́k]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊ.nʊ́k]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.nák]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xo.nǽkʰʲ], [xo.nókʰʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.núk]

Readings
Classical reading?	xunák, xunúk
Dari reading?	xunuk
Iranian reading?	xonak, xonok
Tajik reading?	xunuk

Adjective

خُنَک • (xonak) (comparative خُنَک‌تَر, superlative خُنَک‌تَرین)

1. cool (of temperature), fresh

   هوای خنک ― havâ-ye xonak ― cool weather

2. (figurative) pleased, delighted
3. (figurative) "without heat": insipid, bland (e.g. of a joke, a personality)

   شخصیت خنک و بیمزه

   šaxsiyat-e xonak o bi-maze

   insipid and tasteless personality

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^[1] (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