arak

See also: árak and arák

English

Alternative forms

• araq, arrack, rack

Etymology

From Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq).

Noun

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
2. The toothbrush tree, .
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51:

     They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.

Translations

a Middle Eastern aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink

• Arabic: عَرَق m (ʕaraq)
• Armenian: արաղ (hy) (araġ)
• Azerbaijani: araq (az)
• Bashkir: араҡы (araqı)
• Burmese: အရက် (my) (a.rak)
• Georgian: არაყი (araq̇i)
• German: Anisschnaps (de) m; Arak (de) m; Ouzo (de) m; Raki (de) m
• Hebrew: עַרַק (he) m (arák)
• Interlingue:
• Kazakh: арақ (araq)
• Kumyk: гьаракъы (haraqı)
• Kyrgyz: арак (ky) (arak)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: ראקי m

  Latin: raki m

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• Malay: arak
• Persian: عرق (fa) ('araq)
• Portuguese: áraque m, arak m
• Russian: ара́к (ru) m (arák)
• Swedish: arrak (sv) c
• Tajik: арақ (araq)
• Tatar: аракы (tt) (araqı)
• Turkish: rakı (tr)
• Turkmen: arak (tk)
• Uzbek: aroq (uz)

See also

• raki
• Arak (distilled beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kara, kara, rak'a

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Bikol Central

Noun

arak

1. alcoholic beverage

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ceb‧a‧rak

Noun

arak

1. the Philippine trogon ()

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Ilocano

Noun

arak

1. wine; liquor; alcoholic beverage

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.rak/

Etymology 1

From Malay arak, from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq)

Noun

arak (first-person possessive arakku, second-person possessive arakmu, third-person possessive araknya)

1. rice wine

Synonyms

• tuak

Etymology 2

Verb

arak

1. to (casually) walk or move past

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Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq).

Noun

arak (Jawi spelling ارق, informal 1st possessive arakku, 2nd possessive arakmu, 3rd possessive araknya)

1. beer

Synonyms

• bir

Descendants

• Indonesian: arak

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Portuguese

Noun

arak m (plural s)

1. Alternative form of áraque

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

arak m (Cyrillic spelling арак)

1. double sheet

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Taivoan

Noun

arak

1. son