drake

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* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun drake meaning "male duck" and "dragon." * As a German surname, from Low German drake (“dragon”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized/West Flemish variant of Draak, also related to the above.

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.

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.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دكر بط (dákar baṭṭ) — male duck
• Asturian: coríu — male duck
• Asturian: curru — male duck
• Asturian: patu — male duck
• Belarusian: ка́чар (káčar) — male duck
• Bulgarian: пато́к (patók) — male duck
• Czech: kačer — male duck
• Danish: andrik — male duck
• Dutch: woerd — male duck
• Dutch: mannetjeseend — male duck
• Dutch: draak — male duck
• Esperanto: viranaso — male duck
• Esperanto: anasiĉo — male duck
• Finnish: ankkakukko — male duck
• French: malard — male duck
• French: canard mâle — male duck
• Galician: parrulo — male duck
• Galician: anitre — male duck
• Galician: lavanco — male duck
• Galician: pato — male duck
• German: Erpel — male duck
• German: Enterich — male duck
• German: Entenmännchen — male duck
• German: männliche Ente — male duck
• Greenlandic: qeerlutooq angutiviaq — male duck
• Gutnish: and-drakä — male duck
• Hungarian: gácsér — male duck
• Icelandic: andarsteggur — male duck
• Ido: anadulo — male duck
• Indonesian: bebek jantan — male duck
• Indonesian: itik jantan — male duck
• Irish: bardal — male duck
• Italian: papero — male duck
• Japanese: 雄鴨 (ogamo) — male duck
• Kashmiri: بَطُخ (batukh) — male duck
• Kazakh: кежек (kejek) — male duck
• Eastern Khanty: ҷаҷ (č̣ač̣) — male duck
• Northern Khanty: шош (šoš) — male duck
• Korean: 수오리 (suori) — male duck
• Kyrgyz: кежек (kejek) — male duck
• Latvian: pīļtēviņš — male duck
• Lithuanian: gaigalas — male duck
• Lithuanian: añtinas — male duck
• Low German: Woort — male duck
• Low German: Wart — male duck
• Low German: drake — male duck
• Macedonian: па́тор (pátor) — male duck
• Middle English: drake — male duck
• Norwegian Bokmål: andrik — male duck
• Norwegian Bokmål: andestegg — male duck
• Norwegian Bokmål: hannand — male duck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: andrik — male duck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: andestegg — male duck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: andstegg — male duck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hannand — male duck
• Pashto: پتخ (patax) — male duck
• Polish: kaczor — male duck
• Portuguese: pato — male duck
• Portuguese: marreco — male duck
• Romanian: rățoi — male duck
• Russian: се́лезень (sélezenʹ) — male duck
• Scottish Gaelic: ràc — male duck
• Scottish Gaelic: dràc — male duck
• Serbo-Croatian: па́так — male duck
• Serbo-Croatian: pátak — male duck
• Slovak: káčer — male duck
• Spanish: pato — male duck
• Swedish: andrake — male duck
• Swedish: ankbonde — male duck
• Sylheti: ꠀꠃꠀ (aua) — male duck
• Thai: เป็ด (bpèt) — male duck
• Turkish: suna — male duck
• Ukrainian: ка́чур (káčur) — male duck
• Volapük: dök — male duck
• Volapük: hidök — male duck
• Yiddish: קאַטשער (katsher) — male duck
• Dutch: draakje — small dragon
• Finnish: lohikäärme — small dragon
• Galician: dragonciño — small dragon
• German: Drache — small dragon
• Portuguese: dragãozinho — small dragon
• Portuguese: dragonete — small dragon
• Portuguese: drago — small dragon
• Swedish: drake — small dragon