drake

See also: Drake and drakę

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹeɪk/

• Audio (US):

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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-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

male duck

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: دكر بط m (dákar baṭṭ)

• Belarusian: ка́чар m (káčar)
• Bulgarian: пато́к m (patók)
• Czech: kačer (cs) m
• Danish: andrik (da) c
• Dutch: woerd (nl) m, mannetjeseend f, draak (nl) m (obsolete)
• Esperanto: viranaso, anasiĉo (neologism)
• Finnish: ankkakukko
• French: malard (fr) m, canard mâle m
• Galician: parrulo (gl) m, anitre m, lavanco m, pato m
• German: Erpel (de) m, Enterich (de) m, Entenmännchen n, männliche Ente f
• Greenlandic: qeerlutooq angutiviaq
• Gutnish: and-drakä m
• Hungarian: gácsér (hu)
• Icelandic: andarsteggur (is) m
• Ido: anadulo (io)
• Indonesian: bebek jantan, itik jantan
• Irish: bardal (ga) m
• Italian: papero (it) m
• Japanese: 雄鴨 (おがも, ogamo)
• Kashmiri: بَطُخ m (batukh)
• Kazakh: кежек (kejek)
• Korean: 수오리 (suori)
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• Latvian: pīļtēviņš
• Lithuanian: gaigalas (lt) m
• Low German: Woort (nds) m, Wart m, drake
• Macedonian: па́тор m (pátor)
• Middle English: drake
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: andrik (no) m, andestegg m, hannand m or f

  Nynorsk: andrik m, andestegg m, andstegg m, hannand f

• Pashto: پتخ m (patax)
• Polish: kaczor (pl) m
• Portuguese: pato (pt) m, marreco (pt) m
• Romanian: rățoi (ro) m
• Russian: се́лезень (ru) m (sélezenʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ràc m, dràc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па́так m

  Latin: pátak (sh) m

• Slovak: káčer m
• Spanish: pato (es) m
• Swedish: andrake (sv) c, ankbonde c (rare)
• Thai: เป็ด (th) (bpèt)
• Turkish: suna (tr)
• Volapük: (♂ ♀) dök (vo), hidök (vo)
• Yiddish: קאַטשער m (katsher)

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

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

4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

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

• earthdrake
• firedrake

• icedrake
• nithedrake
• seadrake

Translations

small dragon

• Dutch: draakje (nl) n
• Finnish: lohikäärme (fi)
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• Galician: dragonciño m
• Portuguese: dragãozinho m
• Swedish: drake (sv) c

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Kader, Radke, daker, darke, raked

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Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).

Noun

drāke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraːk(ə)/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. drake (male duck)

Descendants

• English: drake
• Scots: drake

References

• “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.

Noun

drake (plural drakes or draken)

1. drake (dragon)
2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
3. comet, shooting star

Descendants

• English: drake

References

• “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).

Alternative forms

• drakje (pre-1901)
• drakkji, dragje, draga (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²drɑːçə/, /²drɑːkə/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

• audio:

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Noun

drake c

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

Declension

Declension of drake

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

Anagrams

• kader