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• /ˈɪŋk/
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• /ˈiŋk/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada
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• /ˈæŋk/ without æ-raising
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• /ˈeɪ̯ŋk/ æ-raising
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• [ˈeɪ̯ŋk] æ-raising
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• /ˈɛ̃ŋk/ æ-raising
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• [ˈɛ̃ŋk] æ-raising
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• rhymes with -ɪŋk
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• CMU ARPABET: IH1 NG K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ynke, from Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”). In this sense, displaced native Old English blæc (“ink”, literally “black”). Sense four refers to the ink used in newspapers.

249 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afar: midad — coloured fluid used for writing
• Afrikaans: ink — coloured fluid used for writing
• Albanian: bojë — coloured fluid used for writing
• Southern Altai: бойу (boyu) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Southern Altai: чернила (černila) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Amharic: ቀለም (ḳäläm) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Arabic: حِبْر (ḥibr) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Arabic: مِدَاد (midād) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Arabic: حبر (ḥebr) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Arabic: حبر (ḥibir) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Arabic: مداد (mdād) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Aragonese: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡉࡅࡕࡀ (diuta) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Aramaic: ܕ݁ܝܘܿܬ݂ܵܐ (dəyōṯā) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Aramaic: ܚܸܒ݂ܪܵܐ (ḥeḇrā) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Aramaic: ܡܹܠܵܢܝܼܢ (mēlānīn) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: דְּיוּתָא (dəyūṯā) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Armenian: թանաք (tʻanakʻ) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Assamese: চিয়াঁহী (siãhi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Asturian: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb — coloured fluid used for writing
• Basque: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Belarusian: чарні́ла (čarníla) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Belarusian: туш (tuš) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Bengali: কালি (kali) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Bhojpuri: स्याही (syāhī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Bulgarian: масти́ло (mastílo) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Burmese: မင် (mang) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Catalan: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Chakma: 𑄇𑄣𑄨 (kāli) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Cherokee: ᎦᏁᎯ ᏗᎨᏪᎶᏗ (ganehi digewelodi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Chichewa: inki — coloured fluid used for writing
• Chinese Mandarin: 墨水 (mòshuǐ) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Chinese Mandarin: 墨 (mò) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ngazidja Comorian: wino — coloured fluid used for writing
• Corsican: inchjostru — coloured fluid used for writing
• Crimean Tatar: mürekep — coloured fluid used for writing
• Czech: inkoust — coloured fluid used for writing
• Old Czech: črnidlo — coloured fluid used for writing
• Dalmatian: inghiastro — coloured fluid used for writing
• Danish: blæk — coloured fluid used for writing
• Danish: sværte — coloured fluid used for writing
• Dutch: inkt — coloured fluid used for writing
• Esperanto: inko — coloured fluid used for writing
• Estonian: tint — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ewe: inki — coloured fluid used for writing
• Faroese: blekk — coloured fluid used for writing
• Finnish: muste — coloured fluid used for writing
• French: encre — coloured fluid used for writing
• Friulian: ingjustri — coloured fluid used for writing
• Galician: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Georgian: მელანი (melani) — coloured fluid used for writing
• German: Tinte — coloured fluid used for writing
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌶𐌻 (swartizl) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Greek: μελάνι (meláni) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ancient Greek: μέλαν (mélan) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ancient Greek: μελάνιον (melánion) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Greenlandic: pilikki — coloured fluid used for writing
• Gujarati: શાહી (śāhī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hani: meiqsyu — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hausa: tawada — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hawaiian: wai ʻeleʻele — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hebrew: דְּיוֹ (dyo) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hindi: स्याही (syāhī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hungarian: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Hunsrik: Tint — coloured fluid used for writing
• Icelandic: blek — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ido: inko — coloured fluid used for writing
• Igbo: ehicha — coloured fluid used for writing
• Indonesian: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ingrian: cernila — coloured fluid used for writing
• Interlingua: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Irish: dúch — coloured fluid used for writing
• Old Irish: dub — coloured fluid used for writing
• Italian: inchiostro — coloured fluid used for writing
• Japanese: インク (inku) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Japanese: インキ (inki) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Japanese: 墨 (sumi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Javanese: ꦩꦁꦱꦶ (mangsi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Kannada: ಶಾಯಿ (śāyi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Kazakh: сия (siä) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Khmer: ទឹកខ្មៅ (tɨk khmaw) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Korean: 먹물 (meongmul) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Korean: 잉크 (ingkeu) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Kumyk: шакъы (şaqı) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Central Kurdish: مەرەکەب (merekeb) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Kyrgyz: сыя (sıya) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Lao: ຫມຶກ (mưk) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Latin: ātrāmentum — coloured fluid used for writing
• Latvian: tinte — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ligurian: tenta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Lithuanian: rašalas — coloured fluid used for writing
• Lithuanian: tušas — coloured fluid used for writing
• Livonian: tint — coloured fluid used for writing
• Lombard: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Low German: Black — coloured fluid used for writing
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦔᦲᧉ (nam2ṗii2) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Luhya: luwino — coloured fluid used for writing
• Luxembourgish: Tënt — coloured fluid used for writing
• Macedonian: мастило (mastilo) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Maguindanao: dauat — coloured fluid used for writing
• Malagasy: ranomainty — coloured fluid used for writing
• Malay: dakwat — coloured fluid used for writing
• Malay: mangsi — coloured fluid used for writing
• Malay: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Malayalam: മഷി (maṣi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Maltese: linka — coloured fluid used for writing
• Manchu: ᠪᡝᡥᡝ (behe) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Manx: doo — coloured fluid used for writing
• Māori: māmangu — coloured fluid used for writing
• Māori: waituhi — coloured fluid used for writing
• Māori: waingārahu — coloured fluid used for writing
• Maranao: daoat — coloured fluid used for writing
• Marathi: शाई (śāī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Middle English: ynke — coloured fluid used for writing
• Minangkabau: dawat — coloured fluid used for writing
• Mirandese: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Mongolian: бэх (bex) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠬᠡ (beke) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Muong: mâc — coloured fluid used for writing
• Navajo: bee akʼeʼelchíhí tóhígíí — coloured fluid used for writing
• Nepali: मसी (masī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Norman: encre — coloured fluid used for writing
• Norwegian Bokmål: blekk — coloured fluid used for writing
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blekk — coloured fluid used for writing
• Occitan: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Odia: କାଳି (kāḷi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Old English: blæc — coloured fluid used for writing
• Pashto: ورېغ (wreǧ) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Pashto: سياهي (siyāhi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Dari: جَوْهَر (jawhar) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Dari: مُرَکَّب (murakkab) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Dari: سِیَاهِی (siyāhī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Iranian Persian: جُوْهَر (jowhar) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Iranian Persian: مُرَکَّب (morakkab) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Iranian Persian: سِیاهی (siyâhi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Piedmontese: inciòstr — coloured fluid used for writing
• Plautdietsch: Tint — coloured fluid used for writing
• Polish: atrament — coloured fluid used for writing
• Polish: tusz — coloured fluid used for writing
• Polish: inkaust — coloured fluid used for writing
• Portuguese: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Rohingya: hali — coloured fluid used for writing
• Romagnol: inciòstar — coloured fluid used for writing
• Romanian: cerneală — coloured fluid used for writing
• Russian: черни́ла (černíla) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Saho: midad — coloured fluid used for writing
• Samoan: vaitusi — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sanskrit: मसी (masī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱭᱟᱦᱤ (siyahi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sardinian: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh — coloured fluid used for writing
• Scottish Gaelic: inc — coloured fluid used for writing
• Serbo-Croatian: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀стило — coloured fluid used for writing
• Serbo-Croatian: màstilo — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sicilian: nchiostru — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sindhi: مَسُ (masu) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sinhalese: තීන්ත (tīnta) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Slovak: atrament — coloured fluid used for writing
• Slovene: črnilo — coloured fluid used for writing
• Slovene: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Somali: khad — coloured fluid used for writing
• Somali: tawaad — coloured fluid used for writing
• Spanish: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sranan Tongo: enki — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sundanese: mangsi — coloured fluid used for writing
• Swahili: wino — coloured fluid used for writing
• Swedish: bläck — coloured fluid used for writing
• Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠟꠤ (xali) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tagalog: tinta — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tajik: сиёҳӣ (siyohi) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tamil: மை (mai) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tatar: сыя (sıya) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tausug: dawat — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tày: sloăc — coloured fluid used for writing
• Telugu: సిరా (sirā) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Thai: หมึก (mʉ̀k) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Thai: น้ําหมึก (mʉ̀k) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tibetan: སྣག་ཚ — coloured fluid used for writing
• Tibetan: ཕྱག་སྣག — coloured fluid used for writing
• Turkish: mürekkep — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ottoman Turkish: مركب (mürekkeb) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ottoman Turkish: سواد (sevâd) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Turkmen: syýa — coloured fluid used for writing
• Udi: танакӏ (tanaḳ) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ukrainian: чорни́ло (čornýlo) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ukrainian: туш (tuš) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Ukrainian: атра́мент (atráment) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Urdu: سِیاہی (siyāhī) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Uyghur: سىياھ (siyah) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Uzbek: siyoh — coloured fluid used for writing
• Vietnamese: mực — coloured fluid used for writing
• Vilamovian: inkaojst — coloured fluid used for writing
• Volapük: nig — coloured fluid used for writing
• Walloon: intche — coloured fluid used for writing
• Welsh: inc — coloured fluid used for writing
• Yiddish: טינט (tint) — coloured fluid used for writing
• Zhuang: raemxmaeg — coloured fluid used for writing
• Basque: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Bulgarian: масти́ло (mastílo) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Catalan: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Chinese Cantonese: 墨魚汁 /墨鱼汁 (mak6 jyu4 zap1) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 墨魚汁 /墨鱼汁 (mòyúzhī) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Chinese Mandarin: 烏賊墨汁 /乌贼墨汁 (wūzéi mòzhī) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Dutch: inkt — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Estonian: tint — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Finnish: muste — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• French: encre — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Galician: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Galician: borra — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Greek: μελάνι (meláni) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Ancient Greek: ὀλός (olós) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Hungarian: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Italian: inchiostro — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Lü: ᦓᧄᧉᦵᦖᦲᧅ (nam2ṁoek) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Macedonian: мастило (mastilo) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Norwegian Bokmål: blekk — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Norwegian Nynorsk: blekk — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Portuguese: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Russian: черни́ла (černíla) — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Slovene: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Spanish: tinta — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Swahili: wino — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Swedish: bläck — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Vietnamese: mực — dark fluid ejected by squid etc
• Catalan: tintar — apply ink
• Dutch: inkten — apply ink
• French: encrer — apply ink
• Ido: inkizar — apply ink
• Italian: inchiostrare — apply ink
• Central Kurdish: مەرەکەب لێدان (merekeb lêdan) — apply ink
• Latin: encaustō — apply ink
• Polish: tuszować — apply ink
• Portuguese: tintar — apply ink
• Portuguese: entintar — apply ink
• Spanish: entintar — apply ink
• Swahili: wino — apply ink
• Swedish: bläcka — apply ink
• Bulgarian: подписвам (podpisvam) — sign a document
• Bulgarian: подпиша (podpiša) — sign a document
• Catalan: signar — sign a document
• Italian: firmare — sign a document
• Portuguese: assinar — sign a document
• Portuguese: firmar — sign a document
• Bulgarian: татуирам (tatuiram) — apply a tattoo
• Catalan: tatuar — apply a tattoo
• Italian: tatuare — apply a tattoo
• Portuguese: tatuar — apply a tattoo