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Iban
Pronunciation
Noun
tarak
- student; pupil
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Malay tajak (“grass-cutter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tarak (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)
- act of stabbing and leaving it embedded in the flesh (with a knife, dagger, etc.)
- act of driving into the ground (with a stake, wooden peg or pin, etc.)
- stabbing tool embedded in the flesh
- stake or the like driven into the ground (to mark a place or boundary)
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
tarák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)
- Alternative form of trak
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
Tausug
Etymology
Borrowed from English truck. Compare Malay trak and Tagalog trak.
Pronunciation
- (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA(key): /taɾak/
- Rhymes: -ak
- Syllabification: ta‧rak
Noun
tarak (Sulat Sūg spelling تَرَكْ)
- 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.
Usage notes
Both Malaysian & Philippine dialects of Tausug use 'tarak' for referring any type of truck, while 'lūri' is generally used only in Malaysia for referring medium and heavy trucks (such as semi-trailer/18-wheeler or articulated lorries).
Synonyms
Turkish
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, Kyrgyz тарак (tarak), Tatar тарак (taraq), Azerbaijani daraq, Turkmen darak, Yakut тараах (taraaq), etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ˈɾak/
- Hyphenation: ta‧rak
Noun
tarak (definite accusative tarağı, plural taraklar)
- comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)
Declension
Derived terms
Volapük
Noun
tarak (nominative plural taraks)
- dandelion (plant)
Declension
declension of tarak
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms