krak

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

krak

  1. crack

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

krak f (plural krakken)

  1. gadwall (Mareca strepera)
Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Old French crac (“crusader castle”), from Classical Syriac ܟܪܟܐ (karəḵā, “fortress”).

Pronunciation

Noun

krak m (plural kraks)

  1. crusader castle
    Le krak de Montréal ― Montreal Castle

Further reading

Ido

Interjection

krak

  1. crack! bang!

Nauruan

Etymology

Borrowed from English clock.

Noun

krak

  1. clock

Polish

krak

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English crack.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: krak
  • Homophone: Krak

Noun

krak m animal or m inan

  1. (slang) crack, crack cocaine (mixture of baking soda and cocaine in solid form that is smoked in a pipe as a narcotic)
    Hypernym: kokaina
  2. (computing) crack (program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software)
    Hypernym: program

Declension

Declension of krak
singular plural
nominative krak kraki
genitive kraka/kraku kraków
dative krakowi krakom
accusative kraka/krak kraki
instrumental krakiem krakami
locative kraku krakach
vocative kraku kraki

Further reading

  • krak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • krak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *korkъ.[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

krȃk m (Cyrillic spelling кра̑к)

  1. limb (of a frog and certain animals such as octopus or crab), tentacle
  2. fork, branch (of a river, road, etc.)

Declension

Declension of krak
singular plural
nominative krȃk krȃci / krȁkovi
genitive kraka kraka / krȁkōvā
dative kraku kracima / krakovima
accusative krak krake / krakove
vocative krače krȃci / krȁkovi
locative kraku kracima / krakovima
instrumental krakom kracima / krakovima

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*korkъ/*korka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 77
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “krȃk”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 493

Further reading

  • “krak”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “крак”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2024
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