carrack

English

Alternative forms

carack
carrick

Etymology

From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير‎ (qarāqīr).

Noun

carrack (plural carracks)

(now historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

Synonyms

nau

Translations

ship

Arabic: قرقور‎
Belarusian: карака f (karaka)
Bulgarian: карака f (karaka)
Catalan: carraca (ca) f
Czech: karaka f
Danish: karrak
Dutch: kraak (nl)
Finnish: karakki (fi)
French: caraque (fr) f, nef (fr) f
German: Karacke f
Hebrew: קאראק‎
Hungarian: karakk
Icelandic: karkari m
Indonesian: kerakah (id)
Irish: carrac
Italian: caracca f
Japanese: キャラック (kyarakku)

Korean: 캐럭 (kaereok)
Lithuanian: karaka (lt) f
Norwegian: karakk
Persian: کرک‎ (fa) (karak)
Polish: karaka (pl) f
Portuguese: carraca f
Romanian: caracă f
Russian: кара́кка f (karákka)
Slovak: karaka f
Slovene: karaka f
Spanish: carraca (es)
Swedish: karack c
Turkish: karak (tr)
Ukrainian: кара́ка f (karáka)
West Flemish: karaek, kraek, kraekship
West Frisian: kreak