inkwell

See also: ink well and ink-well

English

quill pen in inkwell

Alternative forms

• ink well, ink-well

Etymology

ink +‎ well

Pronunciation

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Noun

inkwell (plural inkwells)

1. A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.
   • 2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.

Derived terms

• dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
• you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
• you don't dip your pen in the inkwell

 

Translations

container for ink

• Arabic: دواة f (dawāh), مِحْبَرَة f (miḥbara)
• Armenian: թանաքաման (hy) (tʻanakʻaman)
• Assamese: দোৱাত (düat), মহী চুঙা (mohi suṅa), মৈলাম (moilam)
• Azerbaijani: mürəkkəbqabı
• Belarusian: чарні́ліца f (čarnílica), калама́р m (kalamár)
• Breton: korn-liv
• Bulgarian: масти́лница f (mastílnica)
• Catalan: tinter (ca) m (used in both standard Catalan and Algherese)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨水池 (mòshuǐchí), 墨水瓶 (zh) (mòshuǐpíng)

• Czech: kalamář (cs) m
• Danish: blækhus n
• Dutch: inktpot (nl) m
• Esperanto: inkujo
• Estonian: tindipott
• Finnish: mustepullo (fi) (bottle), musteastia (other container)
• French: encrier (fr) m
• Galician: tinteiro (gl) m
• Georgian: სამელნე (samelne)
• German: Tintenfass (de) n
• Greek: μελανοδοχείο (el) n (melanodocheío), καλαμάρι (el) n (kalamári) (archaic)
• Hebrew: קֶסֶת (he) f (qéset), דְּיוֹתָה (he) f (dyotá)
• Hindi: दवात (hi) f (davāt)
• Hungarian: tintatartó (hu)
• Icelandic: blekbytta f
• Ido: inkuyo (io)
• Irish: dúchán m
• Italian: calamaio (it) m
• Japanese: インク入れ (インクいれ, inkuire), インク壺 (インクつぼ, inkutsubo)
• Kazakh: дәуіт (däuıt), сиясауыт (siäsauyt)
• Khmer: ដបទឹកខ្មៅ (dɑɑp tɨk khmaw)
• Korean: 잉크병 (ko) (ingkeubyeong), 잉크통 (ingkeutong)
• Kyrgyz: сыя челек (sıya celek), сыя соот (sıya soot)
• Latvian: tintnīca f
• Lithuanian: rašalinė f
• Macedonian: масти́лница f (mastílnica)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бэхийн сав (bexiin sav)

• Norman: encriyi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blekkhus n

• Old English: blæchorn m
• Pashto: دوات (ps) m (dewāt)
• Persian:

  Dari: دَوَات (fa) (dawāt)

  Iranian Persian: دَوات (fa) (davât), آمِه (fa) (âme)

• Polish: kałamarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: tinteiro (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਦਵਾਤ f (davāt)

  Shahmukhi: دَوَات f

• Romanian: călimară (ro) f
• Russian: черни́льница (ru) f (černílʹnica)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: tintèri

  Logudorese: tintèri

• Sassarese: tintèri, caramàiu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мастионица f

  Roman: mastionica (sh) f

• Slovak: kalamár m
• Slovene: črnilnik m
• Spanish: tintero (es) m
• Swedish: bläckhorn (sv) n
• Tagalog: dingsulan, tintero, tinteruhan
• Tajik: давот (davot), сиёҳидон (siyohidon)
• Thai: ที่ใส่หมึก
• Turkish: hokka (tr)
• Ukrainian: чорни́льниця f (čornýlʹnycja), калама́р (uk) m (kalamár)
• Urdu: دَوات f (davāt), سِیاہی دان m (siyāhī dān)
• Uyghur: سىياھدان (siyahdan)
• Uzbek: siyohdon (uz)
• Vietnamese: lọ mực, bình mực
• Volapük: nigiär (vo)
• Welsh: pot inc m

See also

• dip pen
• fountain pen
• ink
• inkpot
• inkstand
• nib pen
• quill, quill pen

References

• inkwell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia