yarak
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Persian یارکی (yâraki, “power, strength, ability, boldness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarak (uncountable)
- (falconry) A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.
- 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
- Kay began walking off in the wrong direction, raging in his heart because he knew that he had flown the bird when he was not properly in yarak, and the Wart had to shout after him the right way.
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ياراق (yarak, “weapon; penis”). By surface analysis, yar- (“to cleave, slice, cut through”) + (suffix deriving tools) -ak. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰺𐰴 (yarak), Chagatai یاراغ (yarağ), Azerbaijani yaraq, Kazakh жарақ (jaraq) etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yarak (definite accusative yarağı, plural yaraklar)
Declension
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