different between arak vs frak

English

Alternative forms

• araq, arrack, rack

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?araq). Doublet of ara.

Noun

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East.
2. The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
   • 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51:

     They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.

3. Alternative spelling of arrack (an alcoholic drink distilled from coconut palm flowers in South Asia)

Related terms

• raki
• rakija

Translations

See also

• Arak (distilled beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kara, kara, rak'a

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?rak

Noun

arak

1. wine, liquor, alcoholic beverage

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ceb?a?rak

Noun

arak

1. the Philippine trogon (Harpactes ardens)

Chamorro

Etymology

From Malay arak; see there for more.

Noun

arak

1. distilled liquor made from fermented coconut milk

Ilocano

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay arak, from Arabic ?????? (?araq).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: á?rak
• IPA^(key): /??a?ak/

Noun

árak

1. wine; liquor; alcoholic beverage

Derived terms

See also

• basi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a?ak (“to walk single-file”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?rák
• IPA^(key): /?a??ak/, [????ak]

Noun

arák

1. gathering; congregation; assembly

Derived terms

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.rak/

Etymology 1

From Malay arak, from Arabic ?????? (?araq)

Noun

arak (plural arak-arak, first-person possessive arakku, second-person possessive arakmu, third-person possessive araknya)

1. arrack; an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice; rice wine

Synonyms

• tuak

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

arak

1. to (casually) walk or move past

Derived terms

Further reading

• “arak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?araq).

Noun

arak (Jawi spelling ????, informal 1st possessive arakku, impolite 2nd possessive arakmu, 3rd possessive araknya)

1. beer

Synonyms

• bir

Descendants

• Indonesian: arak

Portuguese

Noun

arak m (plural araks)

1. Alternative form of áraque

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

arak m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. double sheet

Taivoan

Noun

arak

1. son

Tangam

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak. Cognates include Burmese ??? (lak) and Tibetan ?? (lag).

Noun

arak

1. (anatomy) hand, arm

References

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, ?ISBN

Yogad

Noun

arák

1. (anatomy) throat

English

Alternative forms

• frack

Etymology

Coined by an author of Battlestar Galactica (TV series). It was English frack in the original series. Changed to frak in the later series to be a four-letter word. (Compare English fraked (“evil, wicked”) and English frakel (“vile, foul, wretched, worthless”))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Verb

frak (third-person singular simple present fraks, present participle frakking, simple past and past participle frakked)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.

Synonyms

• eff, feck, frack, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

See also

• Appendix:Fictional English curse words

References

• Frak (expletive)
• Frack
• Battlestarwiki frak.
• Battlestarwiki frack

Anagrams

• fark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French frac or German Frack (itself from French), from English frock, from Middle English frok, from Old French froc, from Frankish *hrokk. Doublet with Dutch rok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr?k/
• Hyphenation: frak
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

frak m (plural frakken, diminutive frakje n or fraksken n)

1. (Belgium) A coat, a overcoat (item of apparel).

   De frakken hangen aan de kapstok.

   The coats are at the coatstand.

2. (Netherlands) A chic jacket with long coattails.

Synonyms

• (coat): jas

Maltese

Etymology

From the Arabic root ? ? ?? (f-r-k). Perhaps originally from a plural *??????? (*?afr?k).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fra?k/

Noun

frak m (collective, singulative farka, paucal farkiet)

1. crumb(s)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• frakk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian frakker, possibly from Old Norse frakkr (“brave”). Related to frekk. Confer with Icelandic frakkur.

Adjective

frak (masculine and feminine frak, neuter frakt, definite singular and plural frake, comparative frakare, indefinite superlative frakast, definite superlative frakaste)

1. in good shape, healthy, strong

References

• “frak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary..

Polish

Etymology

From Old French froc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frak/

Noun

frak m inan (diminutive fraczek)

1. tailcoat

Declension

Related terms

• frakowy

Further reading

• frak in Polish dictionaries at PWN