zak
Meaning
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- (masculine) a pliable container made of textile, leather or paper such as bag, sack, sachet and pouch
- (masculine) a pocket
- (masculine,slang) a scrotum
- (masculine,offensive,slang,vulgar) A contraction of such insults for males as klootzak or rotzak, referring to the scrotum, roughly equivalent to "asshole".
- (masculine,obsolete,slang,vulgar) a whore, cunt
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/zɑk/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sac, from Old Dutch sac, from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from Proto-Germanic *sakkuz, from Latin saccus.
New
zakken
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- (intransitive) to fall, to drop, to sink
- (intransitive) to come down, to go down
- (intransitive) to fail, to flunk
- (transitive) to calm down
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