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dak

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dak"

Translingual

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dak

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Dakota.

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hindustani डाक / ڈاک (ḍāk).

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Noun

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dak (plural daks)

  1. (South Asia) A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers.
  2. (South Asia) A dak bungalow.
    • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 161:
      Gaining the dak, they were joined on the veranda by four tight-lipped men.
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Etymology 2

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Back-formation from daks.[1]

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Verb

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dak (third-person singular simple present daks, present participle dakking, simple past and past participle dakked)

  1. (Australia, informal) To suddenly pull down someone's pants as a prank; to pants.
    • 1995, Simon Petrie, Pointy-Enders, page 172:
      'That Phillip (names another child) “dakked” Trevor.' 'But I've already spoken with Brendan and with Phillip, and they say that it was you who “dakked” Trevor.' 'No. He did it to me first, ay?' 'First? You mean he “dakked” you before you “dakked” him?'

References

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  1. ^ James Lambert The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 2004.

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch dak, from Old Dutch *thak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

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  • IPA(key): /dak/
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Noun

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dak (plural dakke, diminutive dakkie)

  1. roof

Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *dauka, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew-, further related to Lithuanian dvékti (“to breathe”), dvākas (“breath”). Related to dash.[1]

Noun

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dak m (plural daqe, definite daku, definite plural daqet)

  1. big ram
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References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dak”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 54

Central Nicobarese

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Noun

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dak

  1. water

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  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
  • Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149: Nancowry daak

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

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Noun

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dak n (plural daken, diminutive dakje n or daakje n)

  1. roof

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: dak
  • Negerhollands: dak
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: dák
  • → Caribbean Javanese: dag
  • → Indonesian: dak
  • → Papiamentu: dak
  • → Sranan Tongo: daki

Eastern Mnong

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bahnaric /*ɗaːk/, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗaak.

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dak

  1. water
  2. lake

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch dak (“roof”), from Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdak]
  • Hyphenation: dak

Noun

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dak (first-person possessive dakku, second-person possessive dakmu, third-person possessive daknya)

  1. (engineering) roof, the top external level of a building.

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Kashubian

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Dak

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Low German Dack.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdak/
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: dak

Noun

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dak m inan (diminutive daczk or dakùszk or daczuszk, related adjective dakòwi)

  1. roof (cover at the top of a building)
    Synonym: (dialectal) dach

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Declension of dak
singular plural
nominative dak daczi
genitive dakù daków
dative dakòwi dakóm
accusative dak daczi
instrumental dakã dakama
locative dakù dakach
vocative dak/dakù daczi

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Further reading

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  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “dak”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 23
  • Sychta, Bernard (1967) “dak”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 185
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “dach”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1]
  • “dak”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Kharia

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Etymology

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For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

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dak

  1. water

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  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

Korwa

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Etymology

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For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

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dak

  1. water

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  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

Malay

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Etymology

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Cognate with tidak, tak, from Proto-Malayic *daʔ (compare Indonesian tidak), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *diaq.

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Adverb

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dak

  1. (informal) not (negates meaning of verb)
    Saya dak mahu makan.
    I don't want to eat.
  2. (informal) not (To no degree)
    Buku itu dak mahal.
    That book is not expensive.

Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic ذَاكَ (ḏāka).

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dak (feminine dik, plural dawk)

  1. that

Marshallese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English duck, from Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”).

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dak

  1. a duck

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Semai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗak (“trap; to trap”).

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dak [1]

  1. trap

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  1. ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Semelai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗaak (“water, liquid”).

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dak

  1. water

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  • Nicole Kruspe, A Grammar of Semelai (2004)

Wutunhua

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tibetan སྟག (stag).

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dak

  1. tiger

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  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎[2], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
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