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maqtaq

maqtaq is the alternative form of muktuk.

Meaning of muktuk

Noun

muktuk (usually uncountable, plural muktuks)

  1. (usually) The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit.
    • Nearly 12 hours after arrival, the whale carcass has been stripped and left for the polar bears. As tired families load up their share of meat and muktuk, I wonder just how long this tradition will continue.1990 August, Richard Olsenius, “Eskimos pull together for a whale harvest”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 29

Questions about maqtaq

What is maqtaq the alternative form of?
Maqtaq is the alternative form of muktuk.

Words near maqtaq in the dictionary

  1. maqsurahs
  2. maqsuras
  3. maqta
  4. maqtab
  5. maqtabs
  6. maqtaq
  7. maqtas
  8. maquahuitl
  9. maquahuitls
  10. maque choux
  11. Maqueda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maqtaq (page history and authors); muktuk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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