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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A brandy of Turkey and the Balkans, distilled from grapes or plums and flavored with anise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A colorless aromatic spirituous liquor, prepared from grain-spirit, as in Greece, or from distilled grape-juice, as in the Levant.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An Turkish liqueur flavored with anise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.

Etymologies

  1. From Turkish rakı, from Arabic عرقي (ʿáraqi, "of liquor"), from عرق (ʿáraq, "arrack, arak"), literally, “condensate,” which refers to an ouzo-like liqueur made of raisins. (Wiktionary)
  2. Turkish rāqī, from Arabic 'araq, arrack; see arrack. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • mollusque In Angora, Mustafa Kemal let it be printed in the newspaper that he would be holding a tea at Chankaya while in actuality he'd left for his headquarters in the field. With his mean, he drank the last raki he'd take until the battle was over.
    --Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 34-35 Aug 6, 2008

  • reesetee A strong Turkish liqueur made from anise and raisins. Feb 26, 2007

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