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Definition of 'YAK'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) yak
a large, shaggy-haired wild ox, Bos grunniens, of the Tibetan highlands, having long, curved horns.

2. yak
a domesticated variety of this animal.

3. (v.i.) yak
to gab; chatter.

4. (n.) yak
incessant idle or gossipy talk.

Etymology: (1945–50; appar. of expressive orig.)

Definition of 'YAK'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
noisy talk

2. (verb) yak, Bos grunniens
large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated

3. (verb) yak, gab
talk profusely
"she was yakking away about her grandchildren"

Definition of 'YAK'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) YAK
a bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc

Translation of 'YAK'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a type of long-haired ox, found in Tibet.
Afrikaans: jak	Arabic: ياك: ثَور التِّبِت الضَّخ	Bulgarian: як
Brazilian: iaque	Czech: jak	German: der Yak
Danish: yakokse	Greek: γιακ (είδος μεγαλόσωμου α	Spanish: yac, yak
Estonian: jakk	Farsi: غژگاو	Finnish: jakki
French: ya(c)k	Hebrew: יַאק	Hindi: याक, बैल की जाति का एक ति
Croatian: jak	Hungarian: jak	Indonesian: yak
Icelandic: jakuxi	Italian: yak, (bue tibetano)	Japanese: ヤク
Korean: 야크(티베트 고원 지대에 사는 털이 긴 소)	Lithuanian: jakas	Latvian: jaks
Malay: yak	Dutch: jak	Norwegian: jakokse
Polish: jak	Persian: غژگاو	Pashto: غژګاو (خشګاو
Portuguese: iaque	Romanian: iac	Russian: як
Slovak: jak	Slovenian: jak	Serbian: jak
Swedish: jak	Thai: ตัวจามรีอยู่ในฑิเบต	Turkish: Tibetöküzü, yak
Taiwanese: 犛牛	Ukrainian: як	Urdu: تبت کا کوہان والا جھبرا ب
Vietnamese: bò Tây Tạng	Chinese: 牦牛
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