kraken

kraken (plural krakens)

1. Alternative form of Kraken

From Middle Dutch crāken, from Old Dutch *krakon, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkraːkə(n)/

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kraken

1. (transitive) to crack, break open (a shell)
2. (intransitive) to make a creaky sound, like something being cracked
3. (transitive) to break up into (chemical) components
4. (transitive, figuratively) to break someone mentally
5. (transitive, figuratively) to solve a code
6. (transitive and intransitive, figuratively) to practise chiropractic (on a patient)
7. (transitive, figuratively) to squat (a building)
8. (intransitive) to start (said of the day)

• (start): krieken

• krak

• Negerhollands: kraek
• Petjo: kraken
• → Aukan: kalaki
• → Papiamentu: krak, kraak

kraken

1. Plural form of kraak
2. Alternative form of kraak.

• kanker

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /kʁa.kɛn/

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kraken m (plural krakens)

1. Kraken

• “kraken”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

kraken

1. definite singular of krake

kraken

1. definite form singular of krake