Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “sweat; liqueur”).
Pronunciation
Noun
راقی • (rakı)
- liqueur, brandy, raki
Descendants
- Turkish: rakı
- → Albanian: raki
- → Armenian: ըռախի (əṙaxi), ռախի (ṙaxi)
- → Bulgarian: раки́я (rakíja)
- → English: raki
- → Finnish: raki
- → French: raki
- → German: Raki
- → Greek: ρακή (rakí), ρακί (rakí)
- → Ladino:
- Hebrew script: ראקי
- Latin script: raki
- → Macedonian: ракија (rakija)
- → Romanian: rachiu
- → Russian: ракы (raky)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: ра̀кија
- Latin script: ràkija
- → English: rakija