name
Meaning 1
Alternative form of Kharg
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
carrack
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nau
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carack
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: galleon
History
Etymology
From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قرقور — ship
- Belarusian: карака (karaka) — ship
- Bulgarian: карака (karaka) — ship
- Catalan: carraca — ship
- Czech: karaka — ship
- Danish: karrak — ship
- Dutch: kraak — ship
- Finnish: karakki — ship
- French: caraque — ship
- French: nef — ship
- West-Frisian: kreak — ship
- Galician: nao — ship
- Galician: carraca — ship
- German: Karacke — ship
- Hebrew: קאראק — ship
- Hungarian: karakk — ship
- Icelandic: karkari — ship
- Indonesian: kerakah — ship
- Irish: carrac — ship
- Italian: caracca — ship
- Japanese: キャラック (kyarakku) — ship
- Korean: 캐럭 (kaereok) — ship
- Lithuanian: karaka — ship
- Macedonian: карака (karaka) — ship
- Norwegian: karakk — ship
- Persian: کرک (karak) — ship
- Polish: karaka — ship
- Portuguese: carraca — ship
- Romanian: caracă — ship
- Russian: кара́кка (karákka) — ship
- Slovak: karaka — ship
- Slovene: karaka — ship
- Spanish: carraca — ship
- Swedish: karack — ship
- Turkish: karak — ship
- Ukrainian: кара́ка (karáka) — ship
- West Flemish: karaek — ship
- West Flemish: kraek — ship
- West Flemish: kraekship — ship
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