drake

See also: Drake and drakę

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹeɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

Mallard drake

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)

1. A male duck (animal).
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202:

     A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• → Asturian: draque

Translations

male duck

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: دكر بط m (dákar baṭṭ)

• Asturian: coríu (ast), curru (ast), patu (ast)
• Belarusian: ка́чар m (káčar)
• Bulgarian: пато́к m (patók)
• Czech: kačer (cs) m
• Danish: andrik (da) c
• Dutch: woerd (nl) m, mannetjeseend f, draak (nl) m (obsolete)
• Esperanto: viranaso, anasiĉo (nonstandard)
• Finnish: ankkakukko
• French: malard (fr) m, canard mâle m
• Galician: parrulo (gl) m, anitre m, lavanco (gl) m, pato m
• German: Erpel (de) m, Enterich (de) m, Entenmännchen n, männliche Ente f
• Greenlandic: qeerlutooq angutiviaq
• Gutnish: and-drakä m
• Hungarian: gácsér (hu)
• Icelandic: andarsteggur (is) m
• Ido: anadulo (io)
• Indonesian: bebek jantan, itik jantan
• Irish: bardal (ga) m
• Italian: papero (it) m
• Japanese: 雄鴨 (おがも, ogamo)
• Kashmiri: بَطُخ m (batukh)
• Kazakh: кежек (kejek)
• Khanty:

  Eastern Khanty: ҷаҷ (č̣ač̣) (Vakh)

  Northern Khanty: шош (šoš) (Kazym)

• Korean: 수오리 (suori)
• Kyrgyz: кежек (kejek)
• Latvian: pīļtēviņš
• Lithuanian: gaigalas (lt) m, añtinas (lt) m
• Low German: Woort (nds) m, Wart m, drake
• Macedonian: па́тор m (pátor)
• Middle English: drake
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: andrik (no) m, andestegg m, hannand m or f

  Nynorsk: andrik m, andestegg m, andstegg m, hannand f

• Pashto: پتخ m (patax)
• Polish: kaczor (pl) m
• Portuguese: pato (pt) m, marreco (pt) m
• Romanian: rățoi (ro) m
• Russian: се́лезень (ru) m (sélezenʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ràc m, dràc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па́так m

  Latin: pátak (sh) m

• Slovak: káčer m
• Spanish: pato (es) m
• Swedish: andrake (sv) c, ankbonde c (rare)
• Sylheti: ꠀꠃꠀ (aua)
• Thai: เป็ด (th) (bpèt)
• Turkish: suna (tr)
• Ukrainian: ка́чур m (káčur)
• Volapük: (♂ ♀) dök (vo), hidök (vo)
• Yiddish: קאַטשער m (katsher)

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, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. (poetic) 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.

   Hyponym: (fantasy) proto-drake

   1. (fantasy, not universal) lesser draconic creature
2. beaked galley, or Viking warship

   Synonyms: dragon, dragonship

3. (historical) 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 [Sheldonian] Theater:

     Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

4. a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
   • 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.

5. (old) mayfly

   Synonym: drakefly

   Coordinate term: dragonfly

   1. a mayfly used as fishing bait

Derived terms

• earthdrake
• eastern green drake
• firedrake
• green drake
• icedrake
• nithedrake
• proto-drake
• seadrake
• sea drake

Translations

small dragon

• Dutch: draakje (nl) n
• Finnish: lohikäärme (fi)
• Galician: dragonciño m
• German: Drache (de) m
• Portuguese: dragãozinho (pt) m, dragonete m, drago (pt)
• Swedish: drake (sv) c

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

drāke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

Weak masculine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	drāke	drāken
accusative	drāke	drāken
genitive	drāken	drāken
dative	drāke	drāken

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^(key): /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)

1. 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)

1. drake (dragon)
2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
3. comet, shooting star

Descendants

• English: drake

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk drake. See this and the lemma form for more. Unlike most forms with p, t, k recovered for lenited Danish b, d, g, this form was not part of the 1917 standard, but was introduced later under the so-called Samnorsk reforms.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. alternative form of drage (“dragon, kite”)

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• drakje (Landsmål)
• (dialectal) draki (drakkji), draga

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²dra(ː)çə/, /²dra(ː)kə/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. 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

Old Danish

Alternative forms

• draghæ

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Norse *draki, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō. Known since ca 1300.

Noun

drake m

1. dragon
2. based on cognates: dragonship, longship

Descendants

• Danish: drage

References

• https://gammeldanskordbog.dk/ordbog?query=drake

Swedish

en eldsprutande drake [a fire-breathing [fire-spraying] dragon] (sense 1)

en drake [a kite] (sense 2)

en drake / ett drakskepp [a drake / a dragon ship] (sense 3)

drake [dragon] (sense 4)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

• Audio:

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Noun

drake c

2. a dragon (mythical creature)

   en eldsprutande drake

   a fire-breathing dragon

   (literally, “a fire-spraying [idiomatic] dragon”)

   Draken sprutade eld på riddaren

   The dragon spewed ["sprayed" – idiomatic] fire on the knight

   Spewed might capture the intensity of sprayed better than breathed.

   Riddaren dräpte draken

   The knight slew the dragon

   Drakar och Demoner

   Dragons and Demons

   A Swedish fantasy role-playing game (with similar cultural prominence to Dungeons & Dragons in some other countries).

4. a kite (toy)

   Barnen flög drake

   The children flew kites [or a kite]

   (literally, “The children flew kite”)

   Idiomatic for flying one or more kites as an activity. "To <verb> <singular noun>" is a recurring pattern for activities. Compare hopprep (“jump/skipping rope”), where English has a similar pattern "jump/skip rope," studsboll (“bouncy ball”), gungbräda (“seesaw”), val (“election”), and bada (“bathe; swim”).

   Barnen flög (med) drakar

   The children flew [(with)] kites

   Another way to phrase it, implying several kites.

   Nisse flög (med) en drake

   Nisse flew [(with)] a kite

   Could also be expressed as "Nisse flög drake," with a single kite implied.

6. (historical, nautical) a drake, a dragon ship (Viking longship (with a dragon head at the prow))

   Synonym: drakskepp

8. a dragon (keelboat)
9. a drake (male duck)

   Synonym: andrake

   • 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.

10. a dragon (fierce woman)

Declension

Declension of drake

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	drake	drakes
	definite	draken	drakens
plural	indefinite	drakar	drakars
	definite	drakarna	drakarnas

Descendants

• → French: drakkar (“dragonship”) (from plural drakar) (see there for further descendants)

References

• “drake”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• drake in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• kader