tarak

• IPA^(key): /tareaʔ/

tarak

1. student; pupil

Borrowed from Malay tajak (“grass-cutter”).

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

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)

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

tarák (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇᜃ᜔)

1. alternative form of trak

• “tarak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “pointed implement”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• karta

• trak

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

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /taɾak/ [t̪aˈɾak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ta‧rak

tarak (Sulat Sūg spelling تَرَكْ)

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.

Both Malaysian & Philippine dialects of Tausug use '' 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).

• lūri (heavy truck)
• turuk (Indonesia)

From Ottoman Turkish طراق (tarak), itself from Proto-Turkic *tarak (“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.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈɾak/

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• Hyphenation: ta‧rak

tarak (definite accusative tarağı, plural taraklar)

1. comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)

tarak (nominative plural taraks)

1. dandelion (plant)

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