Значение

значений: 8
  1. A male duck (bird).

    Erpel, Enterich, Entenmännchen

    се́лезеньsélezenʹ

    ка́чурkáčur

    adult male of a wild or domestic duck

  2. (поэтическое)Dragon

    Drache

  3. Dragon

    (поэтическое)Lesser draconic creature

  4. Beaked galley, or Viking warship

  5. (историческое)Small piece of artillery

  6. A fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)

  7. (архаичное)Mayfly

  8. Mayfly

    (архаичное)A mayfly used as fishing bait

Примеры

предложений: 8
  1. Drake earns his living by working for the lawyer.

  2. The duck laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.

    deDie Ente legte drei Eier, woraus eines Morgens zwei flauschige kleine Entlein und ein hässlicher kleiner Drache schlüpften.

  3. Nick Drake was an English musician.

    deNick Drake war ein englischer Musiker.

  4. Perry decided to gain information from Drake.

  5. Pink Moon was Nick Drake's final album.

    de„Pink Moon“ („Rosaroter Mond“) war das letzte Album von Nick Drake.

Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 1
male duck:
Русский
По значениям 1
male duck:
Deutsch
По значениям 2
male duck:
small dragon:

Происхождение

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (“male duck, drake”) or from Middle Low German drâke, andrâke, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“drake”, literally “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.

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Формы

мн. число: drakes
Ед. числоdrake
Мн. числоdrakes

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 5
Близкие по смыслу
  • English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596):Francis DrakeSir Francis Drake

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 11

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