གཡག

Tibetan

A domestic yak at Yamdrok Lake.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ (“sheep, yak”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɡjak/
Lhasa: /ja˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡjak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ya^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ja˥˨/

Noun

གཡག • (g.yag)

yak (domestic)

Coordinate terms

འབྲི ('bri, “female yak”)

Descendants

→ Armenian: յակ (yak)
→ Catalan: iac
→ Czech: jak
→ Danish: yak
→ Dutch: jak
→ English: yak
→ Faroese: jakkoksi
→ Finnish: jakki
→ French: yack, yak
→ Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)
→ German: Yak, Jak
→ Hebrew: יאק (yak)
→ Hungarian: jak
→ Icelandic: jakuxi
→ Ido: yako
→ Interlingua: yak
→ Italian: yak m
→ Japanese: ヤク (yaku)
→ Macedonian: јак (jak)
→ Marathi: याक (yāk)
→ Norwegian Bokmål: jak
→ Polish: jak m
→ Portuguese: iaque
→ Romanian: iac m
→ Russian: як (jak)
→ Slovak: jak
→ Slovene: jak
→ Spanish: yac, yak
→ Swedish: jak
→ Turkish: yak

See also

འབྲོང ('brong, “yak (wild)”)

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