Hindi

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

• Hindi: एक ‎(ek)

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

• Bengali: এক ‎(ek)
• Hindi: एक ‎(ek)
• Javanese: eka
• Lao: ເອກ ‎('ēk)
• Punjabi: ਇੱਕ ‎(ikka)
• Santali: ᱮᱠᱚ
• Sinhalese: එක ‎(eka)
• Telugu: ఏకము ‎(ēkamu)
• Urdu: ایک

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