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What (who) is -nik - definition
ENGLISH SUFFIX FROM SLAVIC LANGUAGES
-nik glossary; Peacenik
-nik
¦ suffix (forming nouns) denoting a person associated with a specified thing or quality: beatnik.
Origin
from Russ. (on the pattern of sputnik) and Yiddish.
-nik
The English suffix -nik is of Slavic origin. It approximately corresponds to the suffix "-er" and nearly always denotes an agent noun (that is, it describes a person related to the thing, state, habit, or action described by the word to which the suffix is attached).
peacenik
(peaceniks)
If you describe someone as a peacenik, you mean that they are strongly opposed to war. (INFORMAL)
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-nik
The English suffix -nik is of Slavic origin. It approximately corresponds to the suffix "-er" and nearly always denotes an agent noun (that is, it describes a person related to the thing, state, habit, or action described by the word to which the suffix is attached). In the cases where a native English language coinage may occur, the "-nik"-word often bears an ironic connotation.
Examples of use of -nik
1. His predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad, recently mocked the PAS‘s spiritual leader, Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
2. Nik Adli’s arrest was politically motivated and aimed at tarnishing the image of the Pan–Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, which is led and spiritually guided by Nik Adli’s father, Nik Aziz Nik Mat, said party treasurer Hatta Ramli.
3. Nik Mohammed Nikzad, who heads crime scene investigations here, agrees.
4. Nik Abdullah Kamel, regional manager ME, Tidalmarine Engineering.
5. Nik Adli Nik Aziz, who was arrested in 2001 under the Internal Security Act for alleged links with a Muslim extremist group, was released on Wednesday.