خنک

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwnk' /⁠xunak⁠/, “cool”).

خُنَک • (xonak) (comparative خُنَک‌تَر, superlative خُنَک‌تَرین)

1. cool (of temperature), fresh

   هوای خنک ― havâ-ye xonak ― cool weather

2. (figurative) pleased, delighted
3. (figurative) "without heat": insipid, bland (e.g. of a joke, a personality)

   شخصیت خنک و بیمزه

   šaxsiyat-e xonak o bi-maze

   insipid and tasteless personality

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xunak”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “خنک”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 729a

• IPA^(key): [xoˈnekʲ] (Masarm, Deh Sarv)
• IPA^(key): [xoˈnok] (Kuzarg)

خنک (xonek, xonok)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) cool