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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Obtained by redistilling raisin or dry fig spirits with aniseed. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Raki is the name given to several kinds of alcoholic beverages [1].Raki is an Arabic anise-flavored liqueur. It is also a hard liquor as strong as vodka but made from fruit that is popular throughout the Balkans, which may not be anise-flavored.
Several names referring (sometimes mistakenly) to these drinks include: ouzo, tsikoudia, tsipouro, the Cretan Spirit, "good water", Sljivovica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Raki."
Crosswords: RAKI |
| Non-English Usage: "RAKI" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (brandy, moon shine). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Raki II: Raki vs. Nemesis (1996) | |
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| "RAKI" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "RAKI" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
raki | 69 |
laya raki | 4 |
yeni raki | 4 |
macicy raki | 2 |
raki therapy | 2 |
raki healing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "RAKI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ракия (brandy, eau de vie, schnapps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | raki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | raki (arak, arrack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | raki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Raki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρακί (kind of strong spirit (like g, rum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | arab pálinka (rakee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | raki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akiray raki. (various references) rakı (anisette, arrack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "RAKI": raking, rakis, rakish, rakishly, rakishness, rakishnesses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RAKI": aerobraking, beraking, brakier, brakiest, braking, muckraking, parakite, parakites, unbraking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-k-r" | |
-1 letter: air, ark, irk, kir, ria. | |
-2 letters: ai, ar, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-k-r" | |
+1 letter: fakir, kafir, kauri, korai, krait, mikra, rakis, traik. | |
+2 letters: cakier, daiker, darkie, fakirs, imbark, impark, kaffir, kafirs, kaiser, karmic, kauris, kerria, kraits, lakier, raking, rakish, rumaki, shikar, traiks, troika. | |
+3 letters: airlike, airpark, airsick, arcking, arkosic, armlike, balkier, barkier, barking, beakier, bidarka, brakier, braking, britska, britzka, carking, carsick, clarkia, daikers, darkies, darking, darkish, finmark, flakier, garpike, gawkier, harking, hayrick, imbarks, imparks, kaffirs, kaisers, karstic, karting, kashmir, kauries, keramic, keratin, kerrias, khirkah, kilobar, kilorad, kirkman, kithara, lankier, larkier, larking, larkish, leakier, marking, mismark, narking, oarlike, palikar, paprika, parking, pawkier, peakier, quakier, racking, ramekin, rampike, ranking, rankish, ranpike, ratfink, ratlike, raylike, ricksha, rikisha, rikshaw, rumakis, sarkier, shakier, shikari, shikars, skiwear, snakier, tackier, talkier, titlark, traiked, tripack, troikas, wackier, warking, warlike, zikurat. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 4B 49 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.- .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01001011 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A K I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 004B 0049 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52354543 |
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