inti

Named after the Inca sun god.

inti (plural intis)

1. (historical) The currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991, replacing the sol.

• in it, init

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔil-. Cognates include Iraqw ila, Oromo ija, Sidamo ille, Somali indo and Saho inti.

• IPA^(key): /inˈti/ [ʔɪnˈtɪ]
• Hyphenation: in‧ti

intí f (plural intiitá f)

1. eye

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “inti”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 146

Inherited from Arabic أَنْتِ (ʔanti).

inti f sg

1. you (second-person feminine singular subject pronoun)

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 146

int (“to warn, to motion”) +‎ -i (personal suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈinti]
• Hyphenation: in‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

inti

1. third-person singular indicative present definite of int

From Malay inti. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Not related to intim (“intimate, nuclear”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈinti/ [ˈin̪.t̪i]

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• Rhymes: -inti
• Syllabification: in‧ti

inti (plural inti-inti)

1. essence

   Synonyms: pati, sari

2. core
   1. (chemistry, nuclear physics) ellipsis of inti atom (“atomic nucleus”)

      Synonym: nukleus

3. kernel, nucleus, centre (UK)/center (US)

• “inti”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• innte, innti (superseded)

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈiːnʲtʲə/^[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): (Galway) /ˈinʲtʲə/, /ˈin̠ʲtʲə/^[2], /ˈiːn̠ʲtʲə/^[3]; (Mayo) /ˈin̠ʲtʲiː/, /ˈan̠ʲtʲiː/^[4]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨn̠ʲtʲi(ː)/^[5]

inti (emphatic intise)

1. third-person singular feminine of i

Contraction of inte (“in”) + i m pl (“the”, definite article). Cognate with Sicilian ntî (“in the”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋti/

inti

1. in the (+ a masculine name in the plural)

• ne-i

• inta
• inte
• into

inti

1. sugar

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈinti/, [ˈin.tʰi]
• Hyphenation: in‧ti

inti (Lontara spelling ᨕᨗᨈᨗ or 𑻱𑻳𑻦𑻳, semi-transitive annginti, passive niinti)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to be constantly busy or preoccupied with

   Anjo mestereka tena dongoʼ anaʼ-gurunna katuli nainti

   That teacher does not have stupid students, because he is constantly busy with them.

   Tena kuciniʼ maraeng nainti passanngalinna anjo jama-jamànga

   I see him constantly busy with nothing else but that work.

   Sannging bainemamo nuinti

   You are always preoccupied with women.

   Assuluʼ mantamamaʼ kunainti taruʼrangi

   Whenever I leave or enter the house, the memory of her always preoccupies my thoughts.

2. (transitive) to keep an eye on; to watch over

   Intisài anjo anakku

   Keep an eye on my child.

   Punna nainti jeʼneʼ bariʼbasaʼ anaʼ-anaka nakulle lariji bakkaʼna

   If the children are faithfully watched over to bathe in the morning, they will grow well.

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• int

From Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you [masculine]”) and أَنْتِ (ʔanti, “you [feminine]”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪntɪ

inti

1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun) (generally distinguished as being feminine version of int)

Possibly related to anti (“east”) since the sun rises from that direction. This is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /in.ti/, [ˈɪn.tɪ]

inti

1. the sun.

Usually capitalized when referring to the Sun, an Andean god. See Inti.

• Inti

Derived from Quechua Inti, the Inca sun god.

• IPA^(key): /ˈinti/ [ˈĩn̪.t̪i]
• Rhymes: -inti
• Syllabification: in‧ti

inti m (plural intis)

1. inti (obsolete currency of Peru)

• “inti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025