Arak (drink) different from arrack
Arak or araq (Arabic: ﻋﺮﻕ, Hebrew: ערק or ארק) is a distilled Levantine spirit of the anise drinks family. It is translucent and unsweetened.Similar drinks
Arak is very similar to other anise-based spirits, including the Turkish rakı and the Greek ouzo, the Greek tsikoudia, the Italian sambuca and anisette, the Bulgarian and Macedonian mastika, and the Spanish anis. However, it is unrelated to the similarly named arrack, a sugarcane-based Indonesia liquor.