different between raik vs naik

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Homophone: rake

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake (“path”), from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *r?k?, *rak?, *rak?, *rak? (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *(o)reg'-, *(o)reg'a- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

Noun

raik (plural raiks) (Northern England, Scotland)

1. (also figuratively) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey

2. The movement of animals while grazing.
3. The pastureland over which animals graze; a range, a stray.
4. (Scotland) A journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported.

Alternative forms

• rake

Verb

raik (third-person singular simple present raiks, present participle raiking, simple past and past participle raiked)

1. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:walk

2. (intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of animals (especially sheep): to graze.
3. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To roam or wander through (somewhere).

Alternative forms

• rake

Etymology 2

See rake (noun) (etymology 4).

Noun

raik (plural raiks)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of rake (“rate of progress; pace, speed”)

Anagrams

• Arik, Irak, Kari, Kira, Rika, ikra, krai, raki, rika

English

Alternative forms

• nayak, nayaka

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (n?yaka, “leader, governor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???k/, /?ne??k/

Noun

naik (plural naiks)

1. A lord or governor in South Asia.
2. An officer (equivalent to corporal) in a corps of Indian or Nepalese soldiers.
   • 1888: Also, he had to keep his temper [...] especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

Anagrams

• Akin, Inka, Kian, akin, kain, kina

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay naik, from Classical Malay [Term?], from Old Malay n?yik. First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription.

Verb

naik

1. to climb, to ascend, to rise
2. be on the increase
3. to ride in or on something, to travel (in a vehicle)

Malay

Verb

naik

1. to climb, to ascend, to rise
2. be on the increase
3. to ride in or on something, to travel (in a vehicle)

Tagalog

Noun

naik

1. suburb (or the surrounding countryside)