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एक

एक

Hindi

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    Cardinal : एक (ek)
    Ordinal : पहला (pahlā)

Numeral

एक (ek), Urdu spelling: ایک

  1. (cardinal) one; 1

Adjective

एक (ek) (Urdu spelling ایک)

  1. one, a / an
  2. sole, only

Nepali

Numeral

एक (eka), pronounced एक् (ek)

  1. (cardinal) one

Old Hindi

Alternative forms

  • इक (ika), हेक (heka)

Etymology

From Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (ekka), [script needed] (ika), from Sanskrit एक (eka).

Numeral

एक (eka)

  1. one
    • c. 1500, Kabir, Assorted poetry, pad 77, line 1:
      एक जोति तैं सब उतपंना, कौंण वारंण कौंण सूदा
      eka joti taiṃ saba utapaṃnā, kauṃṇa vāraṃṇa kauṃṇa sūdā
      All have arisen from one light, who is a brāhmin and who is a śūdra?

Descendants


Pali

Alternative forms

Numeral

एक

  1. Devanagari script form of eka

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haykas, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)óykos (one, single). Cognates include Old Latin oinos (Classical Latin ūnus), Ancient Greek οἶος (oîos) and Old English ān (English one and an). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Numeral

एक (éka)

  1. one

Adjective

एक (éka)

  1. (with and without एव (eva)) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only
  2. the same, one and the same, identical
  3. one of two or many
  4. single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent
  5. sincere, truthful
  6. little, small
  7. (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an

Noun

एक (éka) m

  1. name of a teacher
  2. name of a son of रय (Raya)

Noun

एक (éka) n

  1. unity, a unit (at the end of a compound)

Descendants

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0227