rak

rak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tulu-Bohuai.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Tulu-Bohuai terms

rak

1. because

rak

1. before

Borrowed from Russian рак (rak).

rak

1. cancer

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “rak”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Old Czech rak, from Proto-Slavic *rakъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrak]
• Rhymes: -ak

rak m anim

1. crayfish
2. (colloquial, archaic) cancer

   Synonym: rakovina

• humr
• Rak

• “rak”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rak”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rak”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /rak/, [ʁɑɡ̊]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rak n (singular definite rakket, not used in plural form)

1. rabble, riffraff

   Få så det rak væk! Det skræmmer kunderne væk.

   Get that rabble away! It scares off the customers.

rak

1. imperative of rakke

• IPA^(key): /rɑk/
• Hyphenation: rak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Related to rekken.

rak n (plural rakken, diminutive rakje n)

1. a straight section of a waterway
2. a straight distance or section that one traverses by sailing

• Damrak

From Middle Dutch rac. Variant of rek. Possibly related to etymology 1.

rak n (plural rakken, diminutive rakje n)

1. (nautical) a rack, a frame

   Synonym: rek

From Middle Dutch *rak, from Old Dutch *rak, from Proto-West Germanic *rak, from Proto-Germanic *raką (“cord, chain”). Alternatively borrowed from Middle Low German rak (“parrel”), from Old Saxon *rak, from the same West Germanic source above.

• rek

rak n (plural rakken, diminutive rakje n)

1. a rope (often protected with wooden beads), chain or brace for fixing a spar to the mast

   Synonym: rek

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *rakkɜ- (“to make, prepare, build”). Cognates include Finnish rakentaa.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɒk]

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

rak

1. (transitive) to put, set

   Synonyms: tesz, helyez, pakol

(With verbal prefixes):

• rak in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• kar

From Old Norse rak.

• IPA^(key): /raːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

rak n (genitive singular raks, nominative plural rök)

1. wick (of a candle)
2. (chiefly in the plural) raking (quantity of hay)

• (wick): kveikur

rak

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of reka

• ark, kar

From Proto-Slavic *rakъ.

• IPA^(key): /rak/

rak m anim

1. crustacean
2. cancer
3. Cancer

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “rak”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “rak”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

• IPA^(key): [raʔ]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: rak

Probably from English rack.

rak (Jawi spelling رق, plural rak-rak, informal 1st possessive rakku, 2nd possessive rakmu, 3rd possessive raknya)

1. A shelf.

   Synonyms: para / para-para, almari

• Indonesian: rak

Clipping of derak.

rak (Jawi spelling رق, plural rak-rak, informal 1st possessive rakku, 2nd possessive rakmu, 3rd possessive raknya)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a pen being dragged across a paper.
2. (onomatopoeia) The sound of wood breaking and other similar things.

• Indonesian: rak

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rak (Jawi spelling رق, plural rak-rak, informal 1st possessive rakku, 2nd possessive rakmu, 3rd possessive raknya)

1. (Kelantan-Pattani) A not so thick bush.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rak (Jawi spelling رق)

1. (Kelantan-Pattani) Alternative form of larat.

• “rak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [rˠɑk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /rˠæk/
• Bender phonemes: {rak}

rak

1. south
2. summer

• jem̧ar (“summer”)

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Compare with Icelandic rakur

rak (masculine and feminine rak, neuter rakt, definite singular and plural rake)

1. salted and partially fermented (of fish)

• rakfisk

• “rak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rak_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Compare with Icelandic rakur

rak (neuter rakt, definite singular and plural rake)

1. salted and partially fermented (of fish)
2. straight

• rakfisk

rak

1. imperative of raka

• “rak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

rak

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of reka

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

rak

1. year

• rak in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• rak in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• rak in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 285.

Inherited from Old Polish rak, from Proto-Slavic *ràkъ.

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: rak

rak m animal (diminutive raczek)

1. cancer (disease)
2. crayfish (term also used for certain other crustaceans)
3. crampon (spike on a boot used for ice climbing)
4. (Near Masovian) wooden measure on a windmill to regulate the spacing between the fingers of the millwheel

   Hypernym: miara

• rak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “rak”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 369

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rakъ.

rȁk m (Cyrillic spelling ра̏к, diminutive ràčić)

1. crab
2. cancer (astrology)

   Ja sam rak u horoskopu. ― I am cancer in horoscope.

3. (colloquial) cancer (disease)

   Imam rak dojke. ― I have breast cancer.

Rak can also be declined inanimated, if used for the disease.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rakъ.

• IPA^(key): [rak]

rak m animal (related adjective račí or (colloquial) rakový, diminutive ráčik)

1. crayfish

• homár m
• Rak

rak m animal (related adjective rakový)

1. (colloquial, archaic) cancer

   Synonym: rakovina

• “rak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

rak (plural rɔɔk)

1. Shea tree, Vitellaria paradoxa
2. the fruit of this tree, shea nut

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[2], 2005

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rak (comparative rakare, superlative rakast)

1. straight; unbent
2. straight; direct, frank
3. (internal combustion engines) straight

• rak in Svensk ordbok.

• ark, kar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ràkъ. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Krebs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: rak
• Syllabification: rak

rak m animal

1. (zoology) crayfish
3. (medicine) cancer (malignant tumor, of unknown origin, with a tendency to destroy neighboring tissues and spread or disease caused by a malignant tumor)

• “rak” in Soblex