araq

Noun (1)

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. (usually) A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.
   • A rite of the grape harvest in the Christian villages dotting the Lebanon mountain range[…] is the perfectly legal distillation of homemade arak. This smooth, cool, refreshing liquor, tasting of licorice with a soupçon of peppermint, remains the staple drink at Sunday lunch, an eat-till-you-drop...2005 January 25, “The return of arak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun (2)

arak (usually uncountable, plural araks)

1. (usually) A toothbrush tree (Salvadora persica).
   • They use perfume freely, paint their eyes with kohl, and are constantly polishing their teeth with twigs of green arak-wood.1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 51

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