[Fictionary] YARAK results

Tue Apr 22 16:28:41 EDT 2014

Wow! Not expecting this!  Luckily I upgraded my XP to 7 just last week.   New Word soon. Linda  

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] YARAK results
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:18:51 -0400

This falconry term eluded almost everybody, while Linda's felted boot 
was our runaway winner (how easy is it to run in felted boots?) -- 
the next round is hers for the running!

General comments:
Several of these feel perilously close to giving rise to Yurt Alerts, 
but not quite there. I found in looking at the list that I had failed 
to send my definition: it would also have been "perilously close to 
giving rise to Yurt Alerts, but not quite there".  (Hutch)

To me, the word sounds Mongolian, but aren't we supposed to be 
speaking English?  Anyway, with Spring and so many full moon-related 
holidays, I will give two points to the fermented date drink and one 
point to the strawberry festival meal.  I really like the mated 
parrot def and the super-alert bird.  Dross? Related to bagasse?   PS 
Salgine Clay?    (Linda)

I am keeping my optional 1 point for myself. Not for my fictionition, 
but for me, because I want a point. (Fran_

Four authors detected the air of the steppes about this one, so how 
come we didn't get any outright yurt defs?  Others situated it a bit 
further south, in or near the sands of Araby.  It does have that 
sound, doesn't it. (Elliott)

LINDA yarak, n. A felted boot.
2 points for reminding me of yurts.  (Ranjit)
2 points.  (Andrew)
2 points. Short and simple. (Nick)
1 point. (JC)
2 points. (Matt)
1 point. Simple and straightforward.  (Nora)
2 points. (Jean-Joseph)

JEAN-JOSEPH  yarak, adj. Prone to excessive blinking.
1 point.  (Andrew)
1 point. (Matt)
1 point. The thing needs a name, for sure, but ``yarak'' just doesn't 
sound right for it.   (Elliott)

MATT  yarak, n. An Aboriginal tool for digging insects out of trees.
1 point   (Ranjit)
1 point. "A finger." (David)
1 point. (Pierre)
1 point. (Jean-Joseph)
Aboriginal Australian?  How likely is it to end in a k?  (Elliott)

NICK yarak, n. (fr. Ar.) A log for recording nightly astronomical observations.
It was too cloudy here in southwestern Virginia to see the total 
lunar eclipse last night. :-(    (Hutch)
An area of knowledge often associated with Jim, yes.  But I'd expect 
a real astronomical loan from Arabic to be spelled with a c, like 
almanac.  (Elliott)

DAVID  yarak, n. (fr. Turkish) The rose-petal dross discarded in the 
manufacture of attar of roses.
2 points. (JC)
2 points and the bagasse award. (Pierre)
1 point. (Jean-Joseph)
1 point.  Rose bagasse!  What is attar of roses?  OE ator `venom', 
like in ``attercop''?  Another Turkish word?  A complete fabrication? 
(Elliott)

ELLIOTT  yarak, n. The practice of recording a contract by storing 
identical copies in mated parrots.
2 points for being hilarious.  (Fran)
Braaack! Polly wants a ... party of the first part *LMAO*  (Hutch)
Sounds Elliotic.
This has the ring of Elliott. (Jean-Joseph)
Not sure why I put in ``mated''; it just sounded right.  Was it so 
that each party could keep a copy?  Or was the parrot family kept 
intact in the hopes that the contract would be passed on to their 
offspring?  (Elliott)
Elliott earns 2 points for his correct guess

PIERRE yarak, n. A drink made from fermented dates, drunk by 
Assyrians to celebrate the new moon.
2 points. It should be this. (David)
1 point for rare source language.  (Nick)
2 points. When I saw this definition, it struck a chord. If I'm 
right, I think I must have seen it in a book somewhere long ago. 
(Hutch)
2 points. (Linda)
1 point. I'd like to try this beverage... Also, it sounds vaguely 
Klingon: "We will drink yarak together upon our victory!" et 
cetera... (Nora)

WIKTIONARY  yarak, n. (falconry) A super-alert state where a bird is 
hungry, but not weak, and ready to hunt.
1 point because I saw some raptors last weekend. (Fran)
2 points.  I'm out of reasons to not vote for this one, so two 
points. (Elliott)
I know that falconry has words like this, and suspect that it 
probably has one for specifically this, but "yarak" doesn't feel 
likely. All the words in falconry come from Latin and the Germanic 
predecessors. This feels more Oriental.  (Hutch)

ANDREW  Yarak, n. A broad, flat basin within the Gobi Desert 
characterized by saldgine clay. [Mongolian, Late 19th Century]
1 point. (JC)
  I'm just dubious about it as a proper noun.  (Hutch)
  I'd want a lot of convincing before voting for a proper noun.  (Elliott)

FRAN  yarak, n. A traditional strawberry meal eaten as part of the 
spring strawberry festival among Northeastern US indigenous peoples.
1 point.  (Ranjit)
1 point  (Linda)
1 point. Apples or Indians? (Pierre)
1 point.  (Kir)
1 point for yum.  This is a great reason to have a festival.  (Elliott)
Fran earns one point for her correct guess

JC  Yarak, n. (1) A hard ball, made of animal hide, used by the 
Chulym Tatar people of Siberia in the sport of the same name.  (2) A 
sport, similar to polo, indigenous to the Chulym Tatars.
1 point.  (Andrew)
1 point - had it been spelled with a lower-case "Y", I might have 
gone for it. (Hutch)
2 points. I like the idea of a polo-like game of yarak.   (Nora)
2 points.  (Kir)

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