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yarak

[ yar-ak ]

noun

Falconry.
  1. a state of prime fitness in a hawk.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of yarak1

1850–55; perhaps < Persian ī strength
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Example Sentences

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An Emirati surgeon once described the state to me as being “in yarak,” referring to the moment when a falcon is fully primed to hunt.

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It’s hooded in patents, but it’s never in yarak.

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In Cleveland, as in operating theatres around the world, the clinicians were in yarak.

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Kay began walking off in the wrong direction, raging in his heart because be knew that be had flown the bird when he was not properly in yarak, and the Wart had to shout after him the right way.

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When a hawk is keen, and in hunting condition, she is said to be “in yarak.”

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