drake

See also: Drake and drakę

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɹeɪk/
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Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

A male duck.

Derived terms

Translations

male duck

Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: دكر بط m (dákar baṭṭ)
Asturian: coríu (ast), curru (ast), patu (ast)
Belarusian: ка́чар m (káčar)
Bulgarian: пато́к m (patók)
Czech: kačer (cs) m
Danish: andrik (da) c
Dutch: woerd (nl) m, mannetjeseend f, draak (nl) m (obsolete)
Esperanto: viranaso, anasiĉo (neologism)
Finnish: ankkakukko
French: malard (fr) m, canard mâle m
Galician: parrulo (gl) m, anitre m, lavanco (gl) m, pato m
German: Erpel (de) m, Enterich (de) m, Entenmännchen n, männliche Ente f
Greenlandic: qeerlutooq angutiviaq
Gutnish: and-drakä m
Hungarian: gácsér (hu)
Icelandic: andarsteggur (is) m
Ido: anadulo (io)
Indonesian: bebek jantan, itik jantan
Irish: bardal (ga) m
Italian: papero (it) m
Japanese: 雄鴨 (おがも, ogamo)
Kashmiri: بَطُخ m (batukh)
Kazakh: кежек (kejek)
Korean: 수오리 (suori)
Latvian: pīļtēviņš
Lithuanian: gaigalas (lt) m
Low German: Woort (nds) m, Wart m, drake
Macedonian: па́тор m (pátor)
Middle English: drake
Norwegian:
Bokmål: andrik (no) m, andestegg m, hannand m or f

Nynorsk: andrik m, andestegg m, andstegg m, hannand f
Pashto: پتخ m (patax)
Polish: kaczor (pl) m
Portuguese: pato (pt) m, marreco (pt) m
Romanian: rățoi (ro) m
Russian: се́лезень (ru) m (sélezenʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: ràc m, dràc m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па́так m

Latin: pátak (sh) m
Slovak: káčer m
Spanish: pato (es) m
Swedish: andrake (sv) c, ankbonde c (rare)
Sylheti: ꠀꠃꠀ (aua)
Thai: เป็ด (th) (bpèt)
Turkish: suna (tr)
Ukrainian: ка́чур m (káčur)
Volapük: (♂ ♀) dök (vo), hidök (vo)
Yiddish: קאַטשער m (katsher)

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

A mayfly used as fishing bait.
(poetic) A dragon.
- 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria:
  Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
(historical) A small piece of artillery.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
  Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
A fiery meteor.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
  The moon’s my constant Mistresse
  & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
  The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
  mee musicke to my sorrowe.
A beaked galley, or Viking warship.