kraak

• IPA^(key): /kraːk/
• Hyphenation: kraak
• Rhymes: -aːk

Deverbal from kraken (“to crack; to squat; to break and enter”). Cognate with English crack.

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. an instance or action of cracking, breaking; in particular the activity of squatting premises

   Synonym: breken

2. a robbery by breaking and entering

   Synonym: inbreken

From Middle Dutch crake, from Old French caraque, from Old Spanish carraca, Italian caracca or Medieval Latin carraca, from Latin carrus or Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).

kraak f (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. (navigation) a carrack, a nau; a large, 16th/17th century, Iberian type of war - or commercial naval ship
2. a smaller Dutch type of wooden cargo ship, used for inland shipping from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth century

• karaak (obsolete)

Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål krake.

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. (zoology) giant octopus, Kraken

   Synonyms: reuzeninktvis, reuzenoctopus

2. sea monster

   Synonyms: zeemonster, zeegedrocht, kraakvis

• kraken

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kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

1. a gallery in a barn or church

   Synonym: hangzolder

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kraak

1. inflection of kraken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɑːk/, [ˈkrɑ̝ːk]
• Rhymes: -ɑːk
• Syllabification^(key): kraak
• Hyphenation^(key): kraak

kraak

1. croak (glottal sound)
2. croak, caw (the sound of a raven or a crow)

   Alternative form: krääk

   Coordinate term: kvaak (the sound of duck)

• raakkua