dak

dak

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dakota terms

Borrowed from Hindustani डाक / ڈاک (ḍāk).

• dâk (obsolete)
• dawk (obsolete)

• (India) IPA^(key): /ɖɑːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːk

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.

3. (South Asia, obsolete) A journey using the dak system.
   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 65:

     “What are you going to do?” said the woman, between her sobs. “Do! Nothing. What should I do? Kill Kurrell or send you Home, or apply for leave to get a divorce? It's two days' dâk into Narkarra.”

• dak bungalow

Back-formation from daks.^[1]

• dack

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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?'

• DKA

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

• IPA^(key): /dak/

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dak (plural dakke, diminutive dakkie)

1. roof

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

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

1. big ram

• dash

dak

1. water

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /dɑk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

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

1. roof

• dekken

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

From Proto-Bahnaric /*ɗaːk/, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɗaːkʔ.

• IPA^(key): /daːk/

dak

1. water
2. lake

• dak Lak (“Lak Lake”)

From Dutch dak, from Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdak/ [ˈdak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: dak

dak (plural dak-dak)

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

   Synonym: pelat lantai

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʔ/ [ˈdaʔ]
• Syllabification: dak

dak

1. (chiefly dialectal) alternative form of tidak

• “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.

Borrowed from German Low German Dack.

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

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

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

   Synonym: (dialectal) dach

• 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

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

dak

1. water

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

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

dak

1. water

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

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

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

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.

• daka

From Arabic ذَاكَ (ḏāka).

dak (feminine dik, plural dawk)

1. that

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”).

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

dak

1. a duck

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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

dak ^[1]

1. trap

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

dak

1. water

• Nicole Kruspe, A Grammar of Semelai (2004)

Borrowed from Tibetan སྟག (stag).

• IPA^(key): [tɐx]

dak

1. tiger

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