yak

See also: Yak, yäk, and þak

English

Yaks in Tibet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: yack

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.

Hyponyms

• Bos mutus
• Bos grunniens
• Bos mutus grunniens, wild yak
• Poephagus grunniens, domestic yak

Derived terms

• domestic yak
• wild yak
• yak lace
• yakless
• yaklike
• yak shaving

Translations

ox-like mammal

• Armenian: յակ (hy) (yak)
• Buryat: һарлаг (harlag)
• Catalan: iac m
• Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᏩᎧ (dalonige waka), ᏯᎩ ᏩᎧ (yagi waka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牦牛 (zh) (máoniú)

• Czech: jak (cs) m
• Danish: yak c, yakokse c
• Dutch: jak (nl) m
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: gruntbovo
• Faroese: jakkoksi m
• Finnish: jakki (fi)
• French: yack (fr) m, yak (fr) m
• Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)
• German: Yak (de), Jak (de)
• Gujarati: યાક (yāk)
• Hebrew: יאק‏‎
• Hungarian: jak (hu)
• Icelandic: jakuxi m
• Ido: yako (io)
• Interlingua: yak
• Italian: yak (it) m
• Japanese: ヤク (ja) (yaku)
• Kalmyk: сарлг (sarlg)
• Kazakh: қодас (qodas)
• Khmer: ចាមរី (km) (chaamrəy)
• Kyrgyz: топоз (ky) (topoz)
• Macedonian: јак m (jak)

• Malay: yak
• Marathi: याक (yāk)
• Mongolian: сарлаг (mn) (sarlag)
• Navajo: béégashiiʼilí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Newari: च्वाम्वःसा (cvāmvaːsā)
• Persian: غژگاو‏‎ (ğažgâv)
• Polish: jak (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: iaque m
• Romanian: iac (ro) m
• Russian: як (ru) m (jak)
• Serbo-Croatian: jak (sh) m
• Slovak: jak m
• Slovene: jak (sl) m
• Southern Altai: сарлык (sarlık)
• Spanish: yac m, yak (es) m
• Swedish: jak (sv) m
• Tagalog: yak
• Tajik: ғажгов (ġažgov), қутос (qutos)
• Tatar: кутаз (qutaz)
• Telugu: జడలబర్రె (jaḍalabarre)
• Tibetan: གཡག (g.yag) (domestic), འབྲོང ('brong)
• Turkish: yak (tr), Tibet öküzü (tr), Tibet sığırı (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Tuvan: сарлык (sarlık)
• Uyghur: قوتاز‏‎ (qotaz)
• Uzbek: qo'tos (uz)
• Vietnamese: bò tây tạng

Etymology 2

apparently an onomatopoeia

Alternative forms

• yack

Verb

yak (third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked)

1. (intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
   • 1960: “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]” (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI)
2. (intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
   • 1998, Matthew Glave as Glenn Guglia, The Wedding Singer, written by Tim Herlihy:

     She'll feel better when she yaks.

Translations

talk informally, persistently

• Dutch: tateren, kwebbelen (nl), kletsen (nl)
• French: jacasser (fr)
• German: quatschen (de), quasseln (de)

• Italian: chiacchierare (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: blebetati (sh)

vomit

• Dutch: kotsen (nl), braken (nl), overgeven (nl), spuwen (nl)
• German: kotzen (de)

• Serbo-Croatian: rigati (sh)

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
2. (slang) A laugh
3. Vomit.
4. (slang) shorthand for kayak

Translations

informal, persistent talk, chattering

• Czech: žvást m

• Dutch: getater n

vomit

• Dutch: kots (nl), braaksel (nl) n, spuwsel n

• Serbo-Croatian: rigotina (sh) f (риготина)

Related terms

• yackety-yak
• yakfest
• yakky

Anagrams

• 'kay, Kay, kay, kya

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Choctaw

Adverb

yak

1. thus

References

• Cyrus Byington, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

yak m, f (plural yakken or yaks, diminutive yakje n)

1. Alternative spelling of jak

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French

Noun

yak m (plural yaks)

1. Alternative spelling of yack

Further reading

• “yak” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak m (invariable)

1. A yak (bovine)

Synonyms

• bue tibetano

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowing from English yak, from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak m (genitive singular yak, plural yakkyn)

1. yak

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Spanish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Alternative forms

• yac

Noun

yak m (plural yak or yaks)

1. yak (bovine)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak (definite accusative yakı, plural yaklar)

1. yak (ox-like mammal)

Synonyms

• Tibet öküzü
• Tibet sığırı