nunatak

• nunataq

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/, /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/

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• Hyphenation: nun‧a‧tak

nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)

1. A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]
   • 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913‎, volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365:

     We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise.

   • 2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego”, in J. Rabassa, editor, The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego‎, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:

     Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 155:

     The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.

• monadnock

• nunatak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Greenlandic nunataq

nunatak

1. nunatak

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nunatak m (plural nunataks)

1. nunatak

• “nunatak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

• IPA^(key): /nuˈna.tak/

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• Rhymes: -atak
• Syllabification: nu‧na‧tak

nunatak m inan

1. (geology) nunatak

• nunatak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French nunatak.

nunatak n (plural nunatakuri)

1. nunatak

• nunatak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnunatak]

nunatak m inan (genitive singular nunataka, nominative plural nunataky, genitive plural nunatakov, declension pattern of dub)

1. nunatak

• “nunatak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• nunatack

From Greenlandic nunataq.

• IPA^(key): /ˌnʉ̟ːnaˈtak/
• Rhymes: -ak

nunatak c

1. (geology) nunatak

• nunatak in Svensk ordbok (SO)