overwordExplorer
INDONESIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

arak.

arrack; an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice; rice wine

4 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈa.rak/[ˈa.rak̚]
  1. arrack; an alcoholic beverage usually made from fermenting rice; rice wine

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay arak, from Classical Malay ارق (arak), from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq).

verb/ˈa.rak/[ˈa.rak̚]
  1. To parade or trail; to walk or move past successively, after one to another.

    ambitransitive
    ...pengantin wanita dan pengantin laki-laki... di arak atau pawai di sekitar kampung.
Where this word comes from

From Malay arak, from Classical Malay ارق (arak), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aʀak (“to walk single-file”).

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

arak has 4 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

arak studioarak workshello, arak

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.