ajak

• ajag, adjag

From Indonesian ajak, from Malay ajak.

ajak (plural ajaks)

1. (Indonesia) The dhole (Cuon alpinus).
   • 1991, Bill Dalton, Indonesia Handbook, page 374:

     Indonesia where the ajak, the handsome, rufous, bushy-tailed wild dog (a subspecies of the Indian dhole) still thrives.

   • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 7:

     They didn't want the hogs to die, because they would later throw them into battle with the ajaks, in a public spectacle at the end of the hunting season.

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /ajak/, [a.jək]

ajak (plural ajaat)

1. Alternative form of aja

• ajak in Katersat

• ajk (archaic, literary)

From the obsolete aj (“valley; opening”) +‎ -k (“diminutive suffix”), from Proto-Uralic *aŋe (“opening, incision, deepening”).^[1][2][3] Alternatively, possible cognate of Yakut айах (ayaq, “mouth”).^[4]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒjɒk]

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• Hyphenation: ajak
• Rhymes: -ɒk

ajak (plural ajkak)

1. (anatomy) lip (either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth)
   • 1825, Mihály Vörösmarty, Zalán futása,^[1] canto 1, lines 5–6, translation by Watson Kirkconnell and Adam Makkai:

     Hol vagyon, aki merész ajakát hadi dalnak eresztvén, / A riadó vak mélységet fölverje szavával, […]

     Where is the one who, with lips all bold, could thunder a war-song / rousing the gloom of the deep and unsighty abysses, […]

2. (anatomy) labium (one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva)

• ajakos
• ajkú

(Compound words):

• ajakbalzsam
• ajakír
• ajakrúzs

• ajak in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ajak in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈad͡ʒaʔ/ [ˈa.d͡ʒaʔ]
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʒaʔ
• Syllabification: a‧jak

Inherited from Malay ajak, from Proto-Malayic *ajak, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *azak.

ajak (active mengajak, passive diajak)

1. to invite (ask for the presence or participation of someone)

From Malay ajak.

ajak (plural ajak-ajak)

1. dhole (Cuon alpinus)

   Synonym: anjing ajak

• → English: ajak

From Minangkabau.

ajak

1. (dialectal) Synonym of mirip (“similar”)

From Banjarese.

ajak

1. (dialectal) Synonym of kalah (“defeated”)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*azak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “ajak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Turkic *adak.

ajak

1. foot, leg

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ajak”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔaj(a)k (˜x-,-g).

ajak

1. thunder

• IPA^(key): /ad͡ʒaʔ/
• Rhymes: -ad͡ʒaʔ

From Proto-Malayic *ajak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *azak.

ajak (Jawi spelling اجق, plural ajak-ajak, informal 1st possessive ajakku, 2nd possessive ajakmu, 3rd possessive ajaknya)

1. invitation

ajak (Jawi spelling اجق)

1. to invite (ask for the presence or participation of someone)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

ajak (Jawi spelling اجق, plural ajak-ajak, informal 1st possessive ajakku, 2nd possessive ajakmu, 3rd possessive ajaknya)

1. dhole

• Indonesian: ajak
  • → English: ajak

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*azak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *azak.

ajak (Sundanese script ᮃᮏᮊ᮪)

1. to invite (ask for the presence or participation of someone)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*azak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI