tarak

See also: tárak

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tareaʔ/

Noun

tarak

1. student; pupil

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay tajak (“grass-cutter”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾak/ [ˈt̪aː.ɾɐk̠̚]
• Rhymes: -aɾak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)

1. act of stabbing and leaving it embedded in the flesh (with a knife, dagger, etc.)
2. act of driving into the ground (with a stake, wooden peg or pin, etc.)
3. stabbing tool embedded in the flesh
4. stake or the like driven into the ground (to mark a place or boundary)

Derived terms

• itarak
• nakatarak
• pagtarak
• tarakan
• tumarak

See also

• iwa
• saksak
• tasak

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈɾak/ [t̪ɐˈɾak̠̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

Noun

tarák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)

1. alternative form of trak

Further reading

• “tarak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “pointed implement”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• karta

Tausug

Alternative forms

• trak

Etymology

Borrowed from English truck. Compare Malay trak and Tagalog trak.

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /taɾak/ [t̪aˈɾak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (Sulat Sūg spelling تَرَكْ)

1. truck

   Mataud manga tarak sin sundalu dimatung ha Lupa' Sūg iban limabay ha bāy namu'.

   There are lots of military trucks arrived in Jolo and passed by in our home.

Usage notes

Both Malaysian & Philippine dialects of Tausug use 'tarak' for referring any type of truck, while 'lūri' is generally used only in Malaysia for referring medium and heavy trucks (such as semi-trailer/18-wheeler or articulated lorries).

Synonyms

• lūri (heavy truck)
• turuk (Indonesia)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طراق (tarak), itself from Proto-Turkic *tarak (“comb”) and equivalent to tara- (“to comb”) +‎ -ak. Cognate with Kazakh тарақ (taraq), Bashkir тараҡ (taraq), Kyrgyz тарак (tarak), Tatar тарак (taraq), Azerbaijani daraq, Turkmen darak, Yakut тараах (taraaq), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾak/

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• Hyphenation: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (definite accusative tarağı, plural taraklar)

1. comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)

Declension

Declension of tarak

	singular	plural
nominative	tarak	taraklar
definite accusative	tarağı	tarakları
dative	tarağa	taraklara
locative	tarakta	taraklarda
ablative	taraktan	taraklardan
genitive	tarağın	tarakların

Derived terms

• tarak işi
• tarak kemiği
• tarakçı
• taraklamak
• taraklı
• taraklılar
• taraksı
• taraksız

Volapük

Noun

tarak (genitive taraka, plural taraks)

1. dandelion (plant)

Declension

Declension of tarak

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tarak	taraks
Genitive	taraka	tarakas
Dative	tarake	tarakes
Accusative	taraki	tarakis
Predicative1	taraku	tarakus
Vocative	o tarak	o taraks

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

• tarakaflor

Further reading

• “tarak”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)