yarak
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Etymology
From Persian یارکی (yâraki, “power, strength, ability, boldness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
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Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ياراق (yarak, “weapon, equipments; penis”). By surface analysis, yara- (“to avail”) + (suffix deriving tools) -ak. Related to Old Uyghur [script needed] (yarağ, “opportunity”), Cuman-Kipchak yarov (“equipment”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰺𐰴 (yarak), Chagatai یاراغ (yarağ), Azerbaijani yaraq, Kazakh жарақ (jaraq), Turkmen ýarag (“weapon”), etc. Unrelated to Turkmen ýārak.
Pronunciation
Noun
yarak (definite accusative yarağı, plural yaraklar)
Declension
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 962
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