drake

See also Drake

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally "duck-king"), from Proto-Germanic *anudrekô (“duck leader”), from Proto-Germanic *anudz ("duck, ennet"; see ennet) + Proto-Germanic *rekô (“ruler, king”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“chief, king”). Cognate with Middle Dutch andrake (“drake”), Middle Low German āntreke, āntdrāke, ("male duck, drake"; > Low German drake (“drake”)), Old High German anutrehho, antrache ("male duck, drake"; > German Enterich (“drake”)), Swabian Antrech (“drake”), German dialectal Drache (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

male duck

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: دكر بط (dakar baṭ) m

• Bulgarian: паток (bg) (patok) m
• Czech: kačer (cs) m
• Danish: andrik (da) c
• Dutch: woerd (nl) m, mannetjeseend (nl) f, draak (nl) m
• French: canard mâle m
• German: Erpel (de) m, Enterich (de) m
• Hungarian: gácsér (hu)
• Irish: bárdal (ga) m
• Italian: maschio dell'anatra m
• Latvian: pīļtēviņš (lv)
• Lithuanian: gaigalas (lt) m
• Low German: Woort (nds) m, Wart (nds) m, drake (nds)

• Macedonian: патор (mk) (pátor) m
• Pashto: پتخ (ps) (patax) m
• Polish: kaczor (pl) m
• Romanian: rățoi (ro) m
• Russian: селезень (ru) (sélezen’) m
• Scottish Gaelic: ràc (gd) m, dràc (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па́так (sh) m

  Latin: pátak (sh) m

• Slovak: Káčer m
• Spanish: pato (es)
• Swedish: andrake (sv) c
• Thai: เป็ด (th) (pèt)
• Volapük: (♂ ♀) dök (vo), hidök (vo)

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-Germanic *drakô (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drakon, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δρακεῖν (drakein), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (derkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derk-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. A dragon.
   • J. A. Harrison

     Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
   • Clarendon

     Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

terms derived from drake ("a type of dragon")

earthdrake firedrake

icedrake seadrake

Translations

small dragon

• Dutch: draakje (nl) n

• Swedish: drake (sv) c

See also

• Drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• daker, darke, E.D. Ark., raked

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Norwegian

Alternative forms

• drage (Bokmål)

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m

1. dragon
2. kite

Inflection

    Inflection of drake

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	drake	draken	draker	drakene
Nynorsk m	drake	draken	drakar	drakane

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

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Noun

drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Declension of drake

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drake	draken	drakar	drakarna
genitive	drakes	drakens	drakars	drakarnas