See also: тёк

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic تەك
Cyrillic тек
Latin tek

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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тек (tek)

  1. breed, race, origin
  2. (taxonomy) genus
Declension
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Etymology 2

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Adverb

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тек (tek)

  1. for nothing, in vain
  2. only

Kumyk

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk.

Adjective

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тек (tek)

  1. single, sole, only
  2. unique
  3. alone

Conjunction

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тек (tek)

  1. but, however
  2. just, merely

Further reading

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  • Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “тек”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk

Noun

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тек (tek) (Arabic spelling تەك)

  1. ancestry, genesis, origin

Declension

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Derived terms

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Macedonian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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тек (tekm (relational adjective течен or тековен)

  1. current, flow, course, stream
  2. duration
  3. trend

Declension

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Declension of тек
singular plural
indefinite тек (tek) текови (tekovi)
definite unspecified текот (tekot) тековите (tekovite)
definite proximal теков (tekov) тековиве (tekovive)
definite distal текон (tekon) тековине (tekovine)
vocative теку (teku) текови (tekovi)
count form тека (teka)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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те̏к (Latin spelling tȅk)

  1. only, not earlier than, not before
  2. hardly, scarcely

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tękъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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те̑к m (Latin spelling tȇk)

  1. appetite
  2. taste, flavour
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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Common Turkic *tēk, Proto-Turkic *tēk.

Adverb

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тек (tek)

  1. in vain

Derived terms

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References

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тек”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN

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