yak

See also Yak, and yäk

English

Yaks in Tibet

Pronunciation

Wikipedia

• IPA: /jæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: yack

Etymology 1

From Tibetan གཡག (g.yag).

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long and silky hair a horse like tail and a full, bushy mane.

Hyponyms

• Bos mutus
• Bos grunniens
• Bos (mutus) grunniens - wild yak
• Poephagus grunniens - domestic yak

Derived terms

• yak shaving
• yakless

Translations

ox-like mammal

• Armenian: յակ (hy) (yak)
• Catalan: iac (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏂᎨ ᏩᎧ (chr) (dalonige waka), ᏯᎩ ᏩᎧ (chr) (yagi waka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牦牛 (cmn) (máoniú)

• Czech: jak (cs) m
• Danish: yak (da) c, yakokse (da) c
• Dutch: jak (nl) m
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: gruntbovo (eo)
• Faroese: jakkoksi (fo) m
• Finnish: jakki (fi)
• French: yack (fr) m, yak (fr) m
• Georgian: იაკი (ka) (iaki)
• German: Yak (de), Jak (de)
• Gujarati: યાક (gu)
• Hebrew: יאק (he)
• Hungarian: jak (hu)
• Icelandic: jakuxi (is) m
• Ido: yako (io)
• Interlingua: yak (ia)
• Italian: yak (it) m
• Japanese: ヤク (ja) (yaku)

• Kazakh: қодас (kk) (qodas)
• Khmer: ចាមរី (km) (chaamrəy)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: јак (mk) (jak) m
• Marathi: याक (mr)
• Mongolian: сарлаг (mn) (sarlag)
• Navajo: béégashiiʼilí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: غژگاو (fa) (ğažgâv)
• Polish: jak (pl) m
• Romanian: iac (ro) m
• Russian: як (ru) (jak) m
• Slovak: jak (sk) m
• Slovene: jak (sl) m
• Spanish: yac (es) m, yak (es) m
• Swedish: jak (sv) m
• Tajik: ғажгов (tg) (ğažgov), қутос (tg) (qutos)
• Telugu: జడలబర్రె (te) (jaDalabarre)
• Tibetan: གཡག (bo) (g.yak) (domestic), འབྲོང (bo) ('brong)
• Turkish: yak (tr), Tibet öküzü (tr), Tibet sığırı (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قوتاز (ug) (qotaz)
• Uzbek: qo'tos (uz)
• Vietnamese: bò tây tạng (vi)

See also

• Appendix:List of sequenced animal genomes

Etymology 2

apparently an onomatopoeia

Alternative forms

• yack

Verb

yak (third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked) (intransitive)

1. To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
   • 1960: “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]” (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI)
2. To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

Usage notes

• This is subject to the typically Australian 'have-a-verb' syntactic construction, as in 'I had a yak last night'. But this does not qualify 'yak' to be nominal.

Translations

talk informally, persistently

• Dutch: tateren, kwebbelen (nl), kletsen (nl)

• German: quatschen (de), quasseln (de)
• Italian: chiacchierare (it)

vomit

• Dutch: kotsen, braken, overgeven, spuwen

• German: kotzen (de)

Noun

yak (plural yaks)

1. A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
2. (slang) A laugh
3. Vomit.
4. (slang) shorthand for kayak

Related terms

• yackety-yak

Translations

informal, persistent talk, chattering

• Czech: žvást (cs) m

• Dutch: getater n

vomit

• Dutch: kots, braaksel n, spuwsel n

Anagrams

• kay, 'kay, Kay

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

yak m, f (plural yakken or yaks, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. Alternative spelling of jak.

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French

Noun

yak m (plural yaks)

1. Alternative spelling of yack.

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Italian

Noun

yak m (invariable)

1. A yak (bovine)

Synonyms

• bue tibetano

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Spanish

Etymology

From English.

Noun

yak m (plural yak)

1. yak (bovine)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག (g.yak) or via English yak.

Noun

yak

1. yak (ox-like mammal)

Synonyms

• Tibet öküzü
• Tibet sığırı

Verb form

yak

1. The imperative of * "kindle"