tarak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tareaʔ/

Noun

tarak

1. student; pupil

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• karta

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.

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طراق (tarak), itself from Proto-Turkic *targak (“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): /ta.ˈɾak/

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• Hyphenation: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (definite accusative tarağı, plural taraklar)

1. comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)

Noun

tarak (nominative plural taraks)

1. dandelion (plant)