menk
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mansi менкв.
Noun
menk (uncountable)
- (Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a Yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.
- 1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79:
- This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.
- 1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective:
- Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.
- 2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post:
- A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian[sic, meaning Mansi] word for Yeti — may have been responsible.
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Synonyms
- yeti, Russian yeti
Translations
unidentified yeti-like animal
See also
- abominable snowman
- Bigfoot
- sasquatch
- yowie
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