yak
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4.3
- noun
- /jæk/
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yak
- The nomads rely on their yak for essential products like milk and meat.
- yak and cattle
Just Jeffrey Star's yak ranch sells yak meat.
- Just Jeffrey Star's yak ranch sells yak meat.
- These are made out of either real human hair or sometimes yak hair.
- And so we raise water Buffalo, yaks, zebu, you know, different types of cattle, sheep, goats.
- It's going and living in a cave in the Himalayas for a month at a time and having cold rice and yak butter.
- Why I think for this show only it tastes like a yak's ass on fire.
Examples
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-Where do yaks come from?
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In Mongolia, they feast on warm yak yogurt.
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-It's made out of yak hair.
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We use yak butter there.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Hot yak milk with tea, butter, and salt.
Fiction book (2000) -
It is made from yak butter.
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The smell of yak butter was overpowering everywhere.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's yak Stew, yak milk, yak butter, yak cheese.
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The people herded sheep, cattle, yaks, and camels.
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Milk drinkers worldwide consume dairy from Buffalo, goats, sheeps, camels, yaks, horses, and cows.
Synonyms
A large ox with long hair that people keep in Tibet and nearby areas for milk, meat, and carrying loads
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yak for the big mountain ox comes from a Tibetan word, gyag, that local people used for this animal, and English borrowed that name, so today yak means the long-haired wild or domesticated ox of Tibet and central Asia.