yak

See also: Yak, yäk, and þak

English

Yaks in Tibet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: yack

Etymology 1

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

Noun

yak (plural yak or yaks)

1. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Burma, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
   • 2008, Scott R. R. Haskell, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 619

     Utilization efficiency of dietary protein in the yak differs with diet composition and feeding level, age, sex, body condition score, and animal production level (e.g., growth, lactation). Researchers reported no difference between lactating and dry cows in crude protein digestibility, although lactating yak tend to consume more feed than dry yak.

   • 2004, Wilson G. Pond, Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), CRC Press (→ISBN), page 899

     Attempts are now being made, by selection, to create a new breed of yak (the Datong yak) from such crosses. Hybridization of domestic yak with local cattle, at intermediate elevations, has been practiced for generations. The hybrids inherit some of the good characteristics from each species, but lack the adaptation of the yak to the harsh conditions at higher elevations.

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
• yakskin

Translations

ox-like mammal

• Armenian: յակ (hy) (yak)
• Assamese: চুঁৱৰী পহু (sũwori pohu), চুঁৱৰী গাই (sũwori gai)
• Burmese: စာမရီ (my) (cama.ri), အောင်း (my) (aung:)
• 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
• Dongxiang: maoniu fugie
• Dutch: jak (nl) m, knoros m
• Dzongkha: གཡག (g.yag)
• Esperanto: gruntbovo, gjako, poefago
• Faroese: jakkoksi m
• Finnish: jakki (fi)
• French: yack (fr) m, yak (fr) m
• Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)
• German: Yak (de), Jak (de)
• Gujarati: યાક (yāk), ચમરી ગાય (camrī gāya)
• Hebrew: יאק‎
• Hindi: याक (hi) m (yāk), चमरी गाय (camrī gāy)
• Hungarian: jak (hu)
• Icelandic: jakuxi m
• Ido: yako (io)
• Interlingua: yak
• Irish: geac m
• 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 (ms)
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᡵᠯᡠᡴ (sarluk)
• Manx: yak m
• Marathi: याक (yāk)
• Mongghul: hiinog
• Mongolian: сарлаг (mn) (sarlag)
• Navajo: béégashiiʼilí
• Nepali: याक (yāk)
• Newar: च्वाम्वःसा (cwāmwa:sā)
• Pali: camarī
• Persian: غژگاو‎ (ğažgâv)
• Puniabi: ਯਾਕ (pa) m (yāk)
• Polish: jak (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: iaque (pt) 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 (sarlïk)
• Spanish: yac m, yak (es) m
• Swedish: jak (sv) m
• Tagalog: yak
• Tajik: ғажгов (ġažgov), қутос (qutos)
• Tatar: кутаз (qutaz)
• Telugu: జడలబర్రె (jaḍalabarre)
• Thai: จามรี (jaa-ma-ri)
• Tibetan: གཡག (g.yag) (domestic), འབྲོང ('brong), འབྲི ('bri)
• 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. (slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI

     “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 […]

2. (slang, intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
   • 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave):

     She'll feel better when she yaks.

Translations

talk informally, persistently

• Dutch: tateren (nl), kwebbelen (nl), kletsen (nl)
• Finnish: jäkättää (fi)
• French: jacasser (fr)

• German: quatschen (de), quasseln (de), schnattern (de)
• Italian: chiacchierare (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: blebetati (sh)

vomit

• Dutch: kotsen (nl), braken (nl), overgeven (nl), spuwen (nl)
• Finnish: yrjötä (fi)

• German: kotzen (de)
• Serbo-Croatian: rigati (sh)

Noun

yak (countable and uncountable, plural yaks)

1. (slang) A talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.
   • 1983, Nicolas Freeling, The Back of the North Wind (→ISBN)

     The sudden head-down butt jabbed into someone’s face, is a highly effective way of putting a stop to his yack.

2. (slang) A laugh.
   • 1951, Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, Cartoonist

     Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.

3. (slang) Vomit.

Translations

informal, persistent talk, chattering

• Czech: žvást (cs) m
• Dutch: getater (nl) n

• Finnish: jäkätys (fi), juttelu (fi)

vomit

• Dutch: kots (nl), braaksel (nl) n, spuwsel (nl) n
• Finnish: yrjö (fi)

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

Related terms

• yackety-yak
• yakfest
• yakky

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. (slang) A kayak.

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

• IPA^(key): /jɑk/

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• Hyphenation: yak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

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

1. Alternative spelling of jak

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French

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -jak

Noun

yak m (plural yaks)

1. Alternative spelling of yack

Further reading

• “yak” in 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)

   Synonym: bue tibetano

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Kokborok

Alternative forms

• jak

Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *yak (“hand; arm”). Cognate with Garo jak (“hand”).

Noun

yak

1. hand

References

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001), “yak”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary, Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 142

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Manx

Etymology

Borrowed 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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Savi

Etymology

From Sanskrit एक (eka).

Numeral

yak

1. (cardinal) one

References

• Nina Knobloch (2020) A grammar sketch of Sauji: An Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan‎^[1], Stockholm University

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• yac

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝak/, [ˈɟ͡ʝak]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝak/, [ˈɟ͡ʝak]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃak/, [ˈʃak]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒak/, [ˈʒak]

Noun

yak m (plural yak or yaks)

1. yak (bovine)

Further reading

• “yak” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From English yuck.

Interjection

yak

1. An expression to indicate disgust.
2. yuck!

   Yak! Minamanyak niya 'yong babae!

   Yuck! He's perverting that girl!

Synonyms

• kadiri

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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