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单词 raki
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rakin.

Brit. /ˈrɑːki/, /ˈraki/, /rəˈkiː/, U.S. /ˈreɪki/, /ˈrɑki/
Forms: 1600s racckee, 1600s racky, 1600s–1800s rackee, 1600s– raki, 1700s–1800s rakie, 1800s rakkee, 1800s raky, 1800s– rakee.
Origin: A borrowing from Turkish. Etymon: Ottoman Turkish raqi.
Etymology: < Ottoman Turkish raqi brandy, spirits (Turkish rakı ; > modern Greek ρακή , ρακί , Albanian raki ; for forms in other Balkan languages see rakia n.) < Arabic ʿaraq arrack n. In later use probably partly reborrowed via modern Greek or Albanian. Compare French raki (1628 as raqui ). Compare rakia n., rack n.10, arrack n.The word is also used to render the Slavonic and Romanian cognates cited at rakia n. (compare quot. 1959). In quot. 1941 probably rendering Serbian and Croatian rakija rakia n.
A clear alcoholic beverage of Turkey and the Balkans distilled from a variety of fruits or grains, usually flavoured with herbs and spices, esp. aniseed. Also = rakia n.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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a1613 H. Middleton in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iii. xi. 262 The Subasha (which was our guardian, and left in Towne onely to looke to me) fell to drinking hard at a Racky-house.
1675 H. Teonge Diary (1825) 96 [We] drinke to our friends in England in racckee at night.
1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 10 The open assaults of Turks, either spirited with Wine and Rackee, or with the zeal they have brought with them from Mecca.
1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxv. 255 Not far from us were booths of the Turcomans... Some of them joined us, and one or two wanted rakí or brandy.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 Characters 47 They distil from the fruits of trees..a sort of brandy, called rakie.
1834 F. Marryat Pacha I. ii. 27 Sherbet, I cannot drink, rakee I must not.
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. xxvi. 295 Their dram is distilled from rice, and called Raki.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab x. 192 The only levy on our stores had been four bottles of raki.
1919 E. H. Jones Road to En-dor iii. 34 I..poured myself out a tot of Raki from Alec's bottle.
1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 410 Raki, the colourless brandy loved by Slavs.
1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 154 Raki, a fairly general name for spirits in Balkan countries; it may be made from wine, grain, molasses, potatoes, plums, and so on; in Turkey it is a spirit resembling Pernod, which goes milky when diluted.
1969 J. W. Mavor Voy. Atlantis ix. 206 The old woman with two eye-teeth brought us raki or tsipuro, a 40-proof sort of grappa.
1991 Guardian (Nexis) 17 June Glasses of raki distilled from the vines that shroud his little steading in this village on the fertile flatlands north of Tirana.
2002 S. Kinzer in J. Villers Turkey i. 3 The careful mix of ingredients in raki and the loving process by which it is distilled, they believe, make it gloriously unique.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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