Hak

See also: hak and hák

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Bengali হক (hok).
• Borrowed from Khmer.
• Borrowed from Dutch Hak.
• Borrowed from Czech Hák.

Proper noun

Hak (plural Haks)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hak is the 37735^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 589 individuals. Hak is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (70.97%) and White (23.94%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hak”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 115.

Plautdietsch

Noun

Hak f (plural Haken)

1. heel (of the foot)
2. mattock, hoe

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حق (hak, “right, reason, truth, god”), Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq, “truth”), one of the names of Allah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhak/

Proper noun

Hak

1. God

   Synonym: tanrı

Derived terms

• Cenabıhak
• Hak Çalap
• Hak dini
• Hak getire
• Hakk'a ermek
• Hakk'ın rahmetine kavuşmak
• ya Hak

 

Further reading

• “Hak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “Hak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “Hak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1793