dak

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dak"

Translingual

Symbol

dak

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

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Dakota terms

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani डाक / ڈاک (ḍāk).

Alternative forms

• dawk (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (India) IPA^(key): /ɖɑːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːk

Noun

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.
   • 1886 November 23, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, pages 117–118:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding dâks.

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.

Derived terms

• dak bungalow

Etymology 2

Back-formation from daks.

Alternative forms

• dack

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

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?'

Anagrams

• DKA

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dak/

• Audio:

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Noun

dak (plural dakke, diminutive dakkie)

1. roof

Albanian

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. big ram

Related terms

• dash

Central Nicobarese

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

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

1. roof

Derived terms

• afdak
• autodak
• bladerdak
• dakbedekker
• dakconcert
• dakdeel
• dakdekker
• dakgoot
• dakhaas
• dakisolatie
• dakkapel
• dakkoffer
• daklat
• daklekkage
• dakloof
• daklook
• dakloos
• dakloze
• dakpan
• dakraam
• dakrand
• dakriet
• dakspar
• dakterras
• daktuin
• dakwerker
• grasdak
• groen dak
• koepeldak
• lessenaarsdak
• mosdak
• pannendak
• panoramadak
• piramidedak
• puntdak
• rokersafdak
• schaliedak
• schedeldak
• schooldak
• schuifdak
• sedumdak
• strodak
• tentdak
• vegetatiedak
• zaagtanddak
• zadeldak
• zonnedak

 

Related terms

• dekken

Descendants

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

Eastern Mnong

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːk/

Noun

dak

1. water
2. lake

Derived terms

• dak Lak (“Lak Lake”)

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Further reading

• “dak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kashubian

Dak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Dack.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. roof (cover at the top of a building)

   Synonym: (dialectal) dach

Declension

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

Derived terms

nouns

• dakôrz

 

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

Noun

dak

1. water

References

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

Korwa

Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

Noun

dak

1. water

References

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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daʔ/
• Rhymes: -daʔ, -aʔ

Adverb

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

Alternative forms

• daka

Etymology

From Arabic ذَاكَ (ḏāka).

Determiner

dak (feminine dik, plural dawk)

1. that

Marshallese

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [rʲɑk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /rʲæk/
• Bender phonemes: {dak}

Noun

dak

1. a duck

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Semai

Etymology

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

Noun

dak

1. trap

Semelai

Etymology

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

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• Nicole Kruspe, A Grammar of Semelai (2004)

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan སྟག (stag).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɐx]

Noun

dak

1. tiger

References

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