# dak
## Translingual
### Symbol

dak
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Dakota.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Dakota terms

## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani डाक / ڈاک (ḍāk).

#### Alternative forms

* dâk (obsolete)
* dawk (obsolete)

#### Pronunciation

* (India) IPA: /ɖɑːk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːk

#### Noun

dak (plural daks)
* (South Asia) A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers.
** 1886 November 23, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, pages 117–118:He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding dâks.
* (South Asia) A dak bungalow.
** 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 161:Gaining the dak, they were joined on the veranda by four tight-lipped men.
* (South Asia, obsolete) A journey using the dak system.
** 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 65:“What are you going to do?” said the woman, between her sobs. “Do! Nothing. What should I do? Kill Kurrell or send you Home, or apply for leave to get a divorce? It's two days' dâk into Narkarra.”

##### Derived terms

* dak bungalow

### Etymology 2

Back-formation from daks.

#### Alternative forms

* dack

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dæk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Verb

dak (third-person singular simple present daks, present participle dakking, simple past and past participle dakked)
* (Australia, informal) To suddenly pull down someone's pants as a prank; to pants.
** 1995, Simon Petrie, Pointy-Enders, page 172:'That Phillip (names another child) “dakked” Trevor.' 'But I've already spoken with Brendan and with Phillip, and they say that it was you who “dakked” Trevor.' 'No. He did it to me first, ay?' 'First? You mean he “dakked” you before you “dakked” him?'

#### References

* ↑ James Lambert The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary (Sydney: Macquarie Library) 2004.

### Anagrams

* DKA

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch dak, from Old Dutch *thak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dak/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dak (plural dakke, diminutive dakkie)
* roof

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dauka, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew-, further related to Lithuanian dvékti (“to breathe”), dvākas (“breath”). Related to dash.

### Noun

dak m (plural daqe, definite daku, definite plural daqet)
* big ram

#### Related terms

* dash

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dak”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 54

## Central Nicobarese
### Noun

dak
* water

### References

* Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
* Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149: Nancowry daak

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɑk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dak
* Rhymes: -ɑk

### Noun

dak n (plural daken, diminutive dakje n or (rare) daakje n)
* roof

#### Derived terms

* afdak
* autodak
* bladerdak
* dakbedekker
* dakconcert
* dakdeel
* dakdekker
* dakgoot
* dakhaas
* dakisolatie
* dakkapel
* dakkoffer
* daklat
* daklekkage
* dakloof
* daklook
* dakloos
* dakloze
* dakpan
* dakraam
* dakrand
* dakriet
* dakspar
* dakterras
* daktuin
* dakwerker
* grasdak
* groen dak
* koepeldak
* lessenaarsdak
* mosdak
* pannendak
* panoramadak
* piramidedak
* puntdak
* rokersafdak
* schaliedak
* schedeldak
* schooldak
* schuifdak
* sedumdak
* strodak
* tentdak
* vegetatiedak
* zaagtanddak
* zadeldak
* zonnedak

#### Related terms

* dekken

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: dak
* Negerhollands: dak
* → Caribbean Hindustani: dák
* → Caribbean Javanese: dag
* → Indonesian: dak
* → Papiamentu: dak
* → Sranan Tongo: daki

## Eastern Mnong
### Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric /*ɗaːk/, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɗaːkʔ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daːk/

### Noun

dak
* water
* lake

#### Derived terms

* dak Lak (“Lak Lake”)

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

From Dutch dak, from Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈdak/ [ˈdak̚]
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: dak

#### Noun

dak (plural dak-dak)
* roof (the top external level of a building)
    Synonym: pelat lantai

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈdaʔ/ [ˈdaʔ]
* Syllabification: dak

#### Adverb

dak
* (chiefly dialectal) Alternative form of tidak

### Further reading

* “dak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Dack.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdak/
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: dak

### Noun

dak m inan (diminutive daczk or dakùszk or daczuszk, related adjective dakòwi)
* roof (cover at the top of a building)
    Synonym: (dialectal) dach

#### Derived terms

* dakôrz

### Further reading

* Stefan Ramułt (1893) “dak”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 23
* Sychta, Bernard (1967) “dak”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 185
* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “dach”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “dak”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Kharia
### Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

### Noun

dak
* water

### References

* Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

## Korwa
### Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari दाः (dāḥ).

### Noun

dak
* water

### References

* Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

## Malay
### Etymology

Cognate with tidak, tak, from Proto-Malayic *daʔ (compare Indonesian tidak), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *diaq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daʔ/
* Rhymes: -daʔ, -aʔ

### Adverb

dak
* (informal) not (negates meaning of verb)
    Saya dak mahu makan.
       I don't want to eat.
* (informal) not (To no degree)
    Buku itu dak mahal.
       That book is not expensive.

## Maltese
### Alternative forms

* daka

### Etymology

From Arabic ذَاكَ (ḏāka).

### Determiner

dak (feminine dik, plural dawk)
* that

## Marshallese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English duck, from Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”).

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [rʲɑk]
* (phonemic) IPA: /rʲæk/
* Bender phonemes: {dak}

### Noun

dak
* a duck

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Semai
### Etymology

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗak (“trap; to trap”).

### Noun

dak
* trap

### References

* ↑ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

## Semelai
### Etymology

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗaak (“water, liquid”).

### Noun

dak
* water

### References

* Nicole Kruspe, A Grammar of Semelai (2004)

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan སྟག (stag).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɐx]

### Noun

dak
* tiger

### References

* Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN