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Webster 1913 Edition

Yak

Yak

(yăk)
,
Noun.
[Tibetan
gyag
.]
(Zool.)
A bovine mammal (
Poephagus grunnies
) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also
chauri gua
,
grunting cow
,
grunting ox
,
sarlac
,
sarlik
, and
sarluc
.
Yak lace
,
a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Yak

YAK

,
Noun.
A species of ox, with cylindric horns curving outwards, long pendent hair, and villous horselike tail; the grunting ox of Pennant. This ox is found in Thibet.

Definition 2024

Yak

Yak

See also: yak, yäk, and þak

German

Alternative forms

Noun

Yak m ‎(genitive Yaks, plural Yaks)

  1. yak (Asian ox-like mammal)

Synonyms

yak

yak

See also: Yak, yäk, and þak

English

Yaks in Tibet

Noun

yak ‎(plural yaks)

  1. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

apparently an onomatopoeia

Alternative forms

Verb

yak ‎(third-person singular simple present yaks, present participle yakking, simple past and past participle yakked)

  1. (intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently, such as chatter.
    • 1960: “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds [...]” (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI)
  2. (intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
    • 1998, Matthew Glave as Glenn Guglia, The Wedding Singer, written by Tim Herlihy:
      She'll feel better when she yaks.
Usage notes
  • This is subject to the typically Australian 'have-a-verb' syntactic construction, as in 'I had a yak last night'. But this does not qualify 'yak' to be nominal.
Translations

Noun

yak ‎(plural yaks)

  1. A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
  2. (slang) A laugh
  3. Vomit.
  4. (slang) shorthand for kayak
Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

Choctaw

Adverb

yak

  1. thus

References

  • Cyrus Byington, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

yak m, f ‎(plural yakken or yaks, diminutive yakje n)

  1. Alternative spelling of jak

French

Noun

yak m ‎(plural yaks)

  1. Alternative spelling of yack

Italian

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག ‎(g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak m ‎(invariable)

  1. A yak (bovine)

Synonyms

Manx

Etymology

Borrowing from English yak, from Tibetan གཡག ‎(g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak m ‎(genitive singular yak, plural yakkyn)

  1. yak

Spanish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག ‎(g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Alternative forms

Noun

yak m ‎(plural yak or yaks)

  1. yak (bovine)

Turkish

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག ‎(g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yak ‎(definite accusative yakı, plural yaklar)

  1. yak (ox-like mammal)

Synonyms

  • Tibet öküzü
  • Tibet sığırı

Etymology

From Tibetan གཡག ‎(g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ak

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