yak
pronunciation
How to pronounce yak in British English:
UK [jæk]
How to pronounce yak in American English:
US [jæk]
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- Noun:
- noisy talk
- large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated
Word Origin
- yak (n.)
- "wild ox of central Asia," 1795, from Tibetan g-yag "male yak." Attested in French from 1791.
- yak (v.)
- "laugh," 1938, variant of yuck (2); "talk idly," 1950, variant of yack. Related: Yakked; yakking.
Example
- 1. We had subsisted on raw yak meat and yak-butter tea and dried meal .
- 2. As I learned working among the tuvans , nomadic yak herders of south siberia , words can also be anchored to a specific place .
- 3. The china nutrition society , a ministry of health-backed research institute , claims the amino acids , calcium , and vitamin a in yak milk are considerably higher than in cow 's milk .
- 4. In the galapagos islands children can ride giant tortoises and turtles ; in vietnam , you can hop on a water buffalo ; in china , you can trek astride a yak ; and some native peoples in mongolia and northern russia ride reindeer .
- 5. His father used to climb with british mountaineer chris bonnington , and his grandfather , a yak traderwho toured the world with everest 's first summiteer , sir edmund hillary .