tarak

See also: tárak

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tareaʔ/

Noun

tarak

1. student; pupil

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Compare Malay tajak (“grass-cutter”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾak/ [ˈta.ɾɐk]
• Rhymes: -aɾak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)

1. act of stabbing and leaving it embedded in the flesh (with a knife, dagger, etc.)
2. act of driving into the ground (with a stake, wooden peg or pin, etc.)
3. stabbing tool embedded in the flesh
4. stake or the like driven into the ground (to mark a place or boundary)

Derived terms

• itarak
• nakatarak
• pagtarak
• tarakan
• tumarak

 

See also

• saksak
• tasak
• iwa

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈɾak/ [tɐˈɾak]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

Noun

tarák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)

1. Alternative form of trak

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from English truck. Compare Malay trak and Tagalog trak.

Noun

tarak

1. truck

   Mataud manga tarak sin sundalu dimatung ha Lupa' Sūg iban limabay ha bāy namu'.

   There are lots of military trucks arrived in Jolo and passed by in our home.

Usage notes

Both Malaysian & Philippine dialects of Tausug use 'tarak' for referring any type of truck, while 'lūri' is generally used only in Malaysia for referring medium and heavy trucks (such as semi-trailer/18-wheeler or articulated lorries).

Synonyms

• lūri (heavy truck)
• turuk (Indonesia)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طراق (tarak), itself from Proto-Turkic *targak (“comb”) and equivalent to tara- (“to comb”) +‎ -ak. Cognate with Kazakh тарақ (taraq), Bashkir тараҡ (taraq), Kyrgyz тарак (tarak), Tatar тарак (taraq), Azerbaijani daraq, Turkmen darak, Yakut тараах (taraaq), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈɾak/

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• Hyphenation: ta‧rak

Noun

tarak (definite accusative tarağı, plural taraklar)

1. comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tarak
Definite accusative	tarağı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tarak	taraklar
Definite accusative	tarağı	tarakları
Dative	tarağa	taraklara
Locative	tarakta	taraklarda
Ablative	taraktan	taraklardan
Genitive	tarağın	tarakların

Derived terms

• tarak işi
• tarak kemiği
• taraklamak
• taraklı
• taraklılar
• taraksı
• taraksız
• tarakçı

Volapük

Noun

tarak (nominative plural taraks)

1. dandelion (plant)

Declension

declension of tarak

	singular	plural
nominative	tarak	taraks
genitive	taraka	tarakas
dative	tarake	tarakes
accusative	taraki	tarakis
vocative 1	o tarak!	o taraks!
predicative 2	taraku	tarakus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• tarakaflor