yarak

From Persian یارکی (yâraki, “power, strength, ability, boldness”).

• IPA^(key): (General American) /ˈja.ɹak/

yarak (uncountable)

1. (falconry) A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     Kay began walking off in the wrong direction, raging in his heart because he knew that he had flown the bird when he was not properly in yarak, and the Wart had to shout after him the right way.

Borrowed from Turkish yarak, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yarak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaɾak/, /ˈjaʁak/
• Hyphenation: ya‧rak

yarak m (genitive yaraks, plural yaraks)

1. (vulgar, Kiezdeutsch) penis

• yarrak (pronunciation spelling, colloquial)
• yarra (eye dialect, colloquial)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ياراق (yarak, “weapon, equipments; penis”), from Old Anatolian Turkish یراق (yaraq, “weapon”), from Proto-Turkic *yarak, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yara-. By surface analysis, yara- (“to avail”) +‎ (suffix deriving tools) -ak.

Compare aşağı and taşak for the emphatetic gemination.

Related to Old Uyghur [script needed] (yarağ, “opportunity”), Cuman-Kipchak yarov (“equipment”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰺𐰴 (yarak), Chagatai یاراغ (yarağ), Azerbaijani yaraq, Kazakh жарақ (jaraq), Turkmen ýarag (“weapon”), etc. Unrelated to Turkmen ýārak.

• IPA^(key): /jaˈɾak/, (colloquial) /jaɾˈɾak/
• Hyphenation: ya‧rak

yarak (definite accusative yarağı, plural yaraklar)

1. (vulgar) penis [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: pipi, penis, sik, çük

   Yarağa benziyor, meymenetsiz tipi ― He looks like a dick, his face is sinister.

2. (vulgar, derogatory, offensive) dickhead

   sen çok konuşma yarram ― Don't talk too much, you dickhead.

3. (archaic) weapon

   Synonym: silah

4. (archaic, Çorum) equipments

• “yarak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “yarak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yarak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 962
• “yarak”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
• XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977