# drake
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɹeɪk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪk

### Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

#### Noun

drake (plural drakes)
* A male duck.

##### Derived terms

* drakelet
* drakeling
* drakeskin
* duck on drake
* ducks and drakes
* sheldrake
* wood drake

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

#### Noun

drake (plural drakes)
* A mayfly used as fishing bait.
* (poetic) A dragon.
** 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria:Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
* (historical) A small piece of artillery.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
* A fiery meteor.
** c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
    The moon’s my constant Mistresse & the lowlie owle my morrowe. The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make mee musicke to my sorrowe.
* A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

##### Synonyms

* (mayfly): drake fly

##### Derived terms

* earthdrake
* eastern green drake
* firedrake
* icedrake
* nithedrake
* seadrake
* sea drake

##### Translations
### See also

* drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Kader, Radke, daker, darke, raked

## Afrikaans
### Noun

drake
* plural of draak

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).

### Noun

drāke m
* dragon, wyrm

#### Inflection

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#### Descendants

* Dutch: draak
** Afrikaans: draak
* Limburgish: draagk, draogk
* West Flemish: droake

### Further reading

* “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdraːk(ə)/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).

#### Noun

drake (plural drakes)
* drake (male duck)

##### Descendants

* English: drake
* Scots: drake

##### References

* “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.

#### Noun

drake (plural drakes or draken)
* drake (dragon)
* (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
* comet, shooting star

##### Descendants

* English: drake

##### References

* “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* drage

### Etymology

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

### Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)
* a dragon
* a kite

### References

* “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* drakje (pre-1901 (Landsmål))
* drakkji, dragje, draga (dialectal)

### Etymology

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²draːçə/, /²draːkə/

### Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)
* a dragon
* a kite
* a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

### References

* “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse *draki (East Norse), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō. Compare Old Norse dreki (West Norse), Middle Low German drake.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

drake c
* a dragon
* a kite
* a male duck, drake
** 1887 February 5, “Ankskötsel [Duck Husbandry]”, in Wadstena Läns Tidning, number 14, page 2:För att få deras ägg fröade, fodras 1 drake till 2 ankor, eller 2 till 5, och drakarne måste ombytas åtminstone hvartannat år.To ensure their eggs are fertilized, one drake is required for two ducks, or two for five, and the drakes must be replaced at least every other year.
* a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* kader