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

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