yak
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Noun[edit]
yak (plural yaks)
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
ox-like mammal
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Etymology 2[edit]
apparently an onomatopoeia
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
yak (third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked)
- (intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
- 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)
- (intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
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1998, Matthew Glave as Glenn Guglia, The Wedding Singer, written by Tim Herlihy:
- She'll feel better when she yaks.
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Usage notes[edit]
- This is subject to the typically Australian 'have-a-verb' syntactic construction, as in 'I had a yak last night'. But this does not qualify 'yak' to be nominal.
Translations[edit]
talk informally, persistently
vomit
Noun[edit]
yak (plural yaks)
- A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
- (slang) A laugh
- Vomit.
- (slang) shorthand for kayak
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Anagrams[edit]
Choctaw[edit]
Adverb[edit]
yak
References[edit]
- Cyrus Byington, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
yak m, f (plural yakken or yaks, diminutive yakje n)
- Alternative spelling of jak
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
yak m (plural yaks)
- Alternative spelling of yack
External links[edit]
- “yak” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Noun[edit]
yak m (invariable)
- A yak (bovine)
Synonyms[edit]
Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from English yak, from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Noun[edit]
yak m (genitive singular yak, plural yakkyn)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
yak m (plural yak or yaks)
- yak (bovine)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.
Noun[edit]
yak (definite accusative yakı, plural yaklar)
- yak (ox-like mammal)
Synonyms[edit]
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