carrack

English

Alternative forms

• carack
• carrick

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French caraque (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin carraca, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).

Noun

carrack (plural carracks)

1. (now historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
   • 2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:

     Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.

Synonyms

• nau

Translations

ship

• Arabic: قرقور
• Belarusian: карака f (karaka)
• Bulgarian: карака f (karaka)
• Catalan: carraca (ca) f
• Czech: karaka f
• Danish: karrak
• Dutch: kraak (nl)
• Finnish: karakki (fi)
• French: caraque (fr) f, nef (fr) f
• Galician: nao f, carraca (gl) f
• German: Karacke f
• Hebrew: קאראק
• Hungarian: karakk
• Icelandic: karkari m
• Indonesian: kerakah (id)
• Irish: carrac
• Italian: caracca f
• Japanese: キャラック (kyarakku)
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• Korean: 캐럭 (kaereok)
• Lithuanian: karaka (lt) f
• Norwegian: karakk
• Persian: کرک (fa) (karak)
• Polish: karaka (pl) f
• Portuguese: carraca f
• Romanian: caracă f
• Russian: кара́кка f (karákka)
• Slovak: karaka f
• Slovene: karaka f
• Spanish: carraca (es)
• Swedish: karack c
• Turkish: karak (tr)
• Ukrainian: кара́ка f (karáka)
• West Flemish: karaek, kraek, kraekship
• West Frisian: kreak