Yurak

American  

[yuh-rak] / yəˈræk /

noun

1. Nenets.

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Etymology

Origin of Yurak

1880–85; < Russian yurák; yur-, akin to Komi jaran Samoyed (compare Mansi jorin, Khanty jarən, jaran, jarγan ), with suffix as in Russian permyák Komi, votyák Udmurt ( Votyak )

Example Sentences

Such were also, and in some measure still are, the kindred Lapps, who with the allied Yurak Samoyeds of Arctic Russia are the only true nomads still surviving in Europe.

From Project Gutenberg

On the spring pasture were feeding several flocks of the famous Angora goats, and the karamanli or fat-tailed sheep, tended by the Yurak shepherds and their half-wild and monstrous collies, whose half-savage nature fits them to cope with the jackals which infest the country.

From Project Gutenberg

The foreman, on being closely questioned, said that he had seen the ruins once or twice, that he had also been up the Urubamba Valley and seen the great ruins at Ollantaytambo, and that those which he had seen at Yurak Rumi were “as good as those at Ollantaytambo.”

From Project Gutenberg

Although this was undoubtedly one of those huacas, or sacred boulders, selected by the Incas as the visible representations of the founders of a tribe and thus was an important accessory to ancestor worship, it was not the Yurak Rumi for which we were looking.

From Project Gutenberg

We all became excited over this, for among the paragraphs which I had copied from Calancha's “Chronicle” was the statement that “close to Uiticos” is the “white stone of the aforesaid house of the Sun which is called Yurak Rumi.”

From Project Gutenberg