hak

Clipping of English Hakka or Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).

hak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hakka.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hakka terms

• hakë
• ah — arbëresh

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حق (hak, “the right, justice; a right; due, share; remuneration”), from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq, “truth”).^[1] The definition evolved from "right, claim, remuneration" > "claim to remuneration or justice" > "retribution, revenge".^[2]

hak f (plural hakë)

1. revenge;
2. earnings, reward;
3. just deserts (deserved punishment);
4. right, justice

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980

• IPA^(key): /ɦɑk/

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• Hyphenation: hak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

From Middle Dutch hacke, from Middle Low German hakke, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hak(k)-, perhaps related to *hakô. Cognate with German Hacke.

hak m (plural hakken, diminutive hakje n)

1. heel of a shoe
2. heel of a foot

   Synonym: hiel

• Afrikaans: hak
• → Caribbean Javanese: hag
• → Indonesian: hak (“heel of a shoe”)

From Middle Dutch hac, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn.

hak m (plural hakken, diminutive hakje n)

1. hoe (agricultural tool, gardening tool)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hak

1. inflection of hakken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

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• Rhymes: -aːk

hak

1. singular imperative of haken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of haken

From Old Norse haki, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

• IPA^(key): /haːk/

  Rhymes: -aːk

hak n (genitive singular haks, nominative plural hök)

1. a small hook or barb

• haki

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhaʔ/ [ˈhaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: hak

Inherited from Malay hak, from Classical Malay hak, from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq, “truth”).

hak (plural hak-hak)

1. right: that which complies with justice, law or reason; a legal, just or moral entitlement

   Kita harus menghormati hak orang lain. ― We must respect the rights of other people.

2. property, ownership, title, interest

   Synonyms: kepunyaan, milik

3. competence, competency

   Synonyms: kewenangan, kekuasaan, wewenang

4. degree, status

   Synonyms: derajat, martabat

5. duty, obligation
6. truth

hak (comparative lebih hak, superlative paling hak)

1. right, truly

   Synonym: benar

Borrowed from Dutch hak (“heel of a shoe”), from Middle Dutch hacke, from Middle Low German hakke, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hak(k)-.

hak (plural hak-hak)

1. heel: the part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel

Borrowed from Dutch haak (“hook”), from Middle Dutch hāke, from Old Dutch *hako, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

hak (plural hak-hak)

1. buttonhook
   1. (sewing) a hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button
   2. a hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes
2. (clothing) a hook used in a hook-and-eye closure
3. (surgery, colloquial) retractor: a surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound

   Synonym: retraktor

Borrowed from Kalabra [Term?].

hak (plural hak-hak)

1. a container made from sago fronds, used to hold sago juice

• “hak”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq, “truth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhak/ [ˈhaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: hak

hak (Jawi spelling حق, comparative lebih hak, superlative paling hak)

1. right, truly

   Synonym: benar

hak (Jawi spelling حق, plural hak-hak or hak²)

1. right: that which complies with justice, law or reason; a legal, just or moral entitlement.
2. property, ownership, title, interest

   Synonyms: kepunyaan, milik

3. duty, obligation
4. truth

• > Indonesian: hak (inherited)

• "hak" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Probably derived from Old Norse [Term?], compare Old Icelandic hākr (“in personal names”).

• IPA^(key): /haːk/

hak

1. (Late Middle English, hapax legomenon) unsparing; ruthless, rough

• “hāk, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Probably shortened form of hakeneie (“hackney horse”).

hak (plural hakkes)

1. (hapax legomenon) A riding horse.

• “hak, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

hak

1. alternative form of hacche

hak

1. alternative form of hakke

• hok (Łowicz, Boczki, Marianka, Strugienice, Złaków Borowy, Przemyśl)

Borrowed from Middle High German hāke, hāken, from Old High German hako.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: hak
• Homophone: Hak

hak m inan (diminutive haczyk, related adjective hakowy)

1. hook (rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment)
2. (boxing) hook (type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc)
3. upper fang of a bull deer
4. antlers of a chamois

hak m inan

1. (colloquial, figurative) dirt, kompromat (compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed)

• “hak”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “hak”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

From dialectal hak (“notch; angle; corner”). Related to the root of hake. First attested in 1807.

hak n

1. a notch

   Synonym: skåra

   2. a rabbet, (UK) a rebate

• fals

Perhaps from Tavringer Romani hak (“place; house”), also found as Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).^[1] The (2023) SAOB entry for ölhak (“beer joint”) gives the origin as an old chimney sweep cryptolect called knoparmoj, where it meant corner;^[2] then potentially to hake (“hook”) and etymology 1. Compare corner in the sense of place.

hak n

1. (Knoparmoj, obsolete) A corner.^[2]
2. (Stockholm slang, obsolete) A place. A corner.^[3]
   • 1910–1912, Arthur Thersleff, Stockholms förbrytarspråk och lägre slang 1910-1912:

     Ett bra hak.

     A nice place.

3. (colloquial) a joint (simple or lowly food venue, or entertainment venue)

   ett hamburgerhak

   a hamburger joint

   Det ligger ett schysst nudelhak runt hörnet

   There's a nice noodle joint around the corner

• Use cases
• ett korvhak [a hot dog joint/restaurant]
• ett nudelhak [a ramen joint/kiosk]
• ett ölhak [a beer joint/hall]

As first element

• haksväng (“corner”) (obsolete, rare)
  • kul i haksvängen (“exquisite, excellent, wonderful”) (obsolete, rare)
  • kul i haket (“exquisite, excellent, wonderful”) (obsolete, rare)

As last element

• danshak (“dance joint”)
• hamburgerhak (“hamburger joint”)
• kebabhak (“kebab joint”)
• korvhak (“hot dog joint”)
• nudelhak (“noodle joint”) (as a ramen shop might be called colloquially, for example)
• ramenhak (“ramen joint”) (as a ramen shop might be called colloquially, for example)
• sunkhak (“dive bar, shabby joint”)
• ölhak (“beer joint”)

• krog
• sylta

• “hak”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hak”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hak”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حق (hakk), borrowed from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq).

• IPA^(key): /hak/

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hak (definite accusative hakkı, plural haklar or (dated) hukuk)

1. justice, fairness

   Synonyms: adalet, hakkaniyet, türe

2. right, liberty

   Synonyms: özgürlük, hürriyet

   Kadın hakları. ― Women's rights.

3. legal entitlement, claim, privilege, title, authority

   maden hakları ― mining rights

   Mary, Elizabeth'in taht iddiasının geçersiz olduğuna inanıyordu. ― Mary believed that Elizabeth's claim to the throne was invalid.

4. truth, righteousness, verity, truthfulness

   Maat, Antik Mısır'ın hak ve adalet tanrıçası. ― Maat, the Ancient Egyptian goddess of truth and justice.

5. share, fee or due in return for labor

• → Abkhaz: а-ҳақ (a-ḥak)

• “hak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “hak”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Other scripts
Latin	hak‍
Cyrillic	хак‍
Arabic	حق

Borrowed from Arabic حَقّ (ḥaqq).

hak (definite accusative haky, plural haklar)

1. truth
2. wage

• hakynda

• “hak” in Enedilim.com
• “hak” in Webonary.org

• hage

Related to Ossetian айк (ajk), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám.

hak

1. egg

From Chinese 客 (MC khaek). Doublet of hek.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /haːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: hag⁷
• Hyphenation: hak

hak (Sawndip forms 𮮛 or 𰍛 or 郝 or 赫 or 𬾼 or ⿰官斈 or 斈 or ⿰亻巷, 1957–1982 spelling hak)

1. government official