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English

Etymology

Adjective

brak (comparative more brak, superlative most brak)

1. (South Africa) Brackish.
   • 1995, Bill Sheat, Gerald Schofield, Complete Gardening in Southern Africa (page 437)

     Brak soils, which continue to be a subject of research, are unlikely to provide a major stumbling block […] However, brak conditions and their effects underline many of the principles of good soil management […]

Anagrams

• bark, kbar, krab

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

German Brack (“defective goods, defect, flaw”).

Noun

brak

1. defect

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?k/
• Hyphenation: brak
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch brac. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

brak (comparative brakker, superlative brakst)

1. brackish
2. (colloquial) bad
3. (colloquial) hung over

Inflection

Derived terms

• brakheid
• uitbrakken

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bracke. Compare German Bracke, French braque, English brach, Italian bracco, Spanish braco. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

brak m or f (plural brakken, diminutive brakje n)

1. hound, brach (of either sex)

   Synonym: jachthond

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

brak

1. singular past indicative of breken

Anagrams

• bark, krab

Gothic

Romanization

brak

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse brak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pra?k/

  Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

brak n (genitive singular braks, no plural)

1. crash, din
2. wreckage, broken wood, etc.

Declension

Derived terms

• brak og brestir (a colossal din)

Polish

Etymology

From Middle Low German brak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brak/

Noun

brak m inan

1. lack, dearth, scarcity
2. defect

Declension

Verb

brak (defective verb)

1. there is/are no; is/are wanting

Conjugation

Further reading

• brak in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bork?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brâ?k/

Noun

br?k m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. marriage

Declension

Derived terms

• br??n?

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ???? (brak), from Polish brak, from Middle Low German brak (“flaw, defect; breaking”).

Noun

brak (plural braklar)

1. reject, defective product

Declension

* Note: The type of possessive is not specified.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *ba?- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. Anatomical uses.
   1. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
   2. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
   3. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
   4. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
   5. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
   6. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
2. Figurative uses.
   1. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

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   2. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
   3. (farriery) A toe clip.
   4. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
   5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
   6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
3. Colloquial uses.
   1. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
   2. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.

Synonyms

• (rigid structure projecting from a bird's face): bill
• (human nose): honker, schnozzle

Derived terms

• beakish
• beaky
• wet one's beak

Translations

Verb

beak (third-person singular simple present beaks, present participle beaking, simple past and past participle beaked)

1. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
3. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.

Synonyms

• (play truant): See also Thesaurus:play truant

Etymology 2

Unknown; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".

Noun

beak (plural beaks)

1. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Ch. XXXVIII:

     They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?

   • 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

     Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak.
2. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:

     It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.

References

• Ranko Matasovi? (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, ?ISBN, page 60

Anagrams

• Baek, bake, beka

Basque

Noun

beak

1. absolutive plural of be
2. ergative singular of be