kraak

• IPA^(key): /kraːk/
• Hyphenation: kraak
• Rhymes: -aːk

From kraken (“to crack; to squat; to break and enter”). Cognate with English crack.

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. an instance or action of cracking, breaking; in particular the activity of squatting premises
2. a robbery by breaking and entering

• (breaking): breken
• (breaking and entering): inbreken

kraak

1. inflection of kraken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Middle Dutch crake, from Old French caraque, from Old Spanish carraca, Italian caracca or Medieval Latin carraca, from Latin carrus or Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).

kraak f (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. (navigation) a carrack, a nau; a large, 16th/17th century, Iberian type of war - or commercial naval ship
2. a smaller Dutch type of wooden cargo ship, used for inland shipping from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth century

• karaak (obsolete)

Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål krake.

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. (zoology) Kraken, giant octopus
2. sea monster

• kraken

• (giant octopus): reuzeninktvis, reuzenoctopus
• (sea monster): zeemonster, zeegedrocht, kraakvis

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. a gallery in a barn or church

• (gallery): hangzolder

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɑːk/, [ˈkrɑ̝ːk]
• Rhymes: -ɑːk
• Syllabification^(key): kraak
• Hyphenation^(key): kraak

kraak

1. croak (glottal sound)
2. croak, caw (the sound of a raven or a crow)

   Alternative form: krääk

   Coordinate term: kvaak (the sound of duck)

• raakkua