Tak

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Tak may refer to:

Linguistics

• Cahn Tak Big God
• Tak, the Danish word for "Thank you!"
• Tak, the Polish word for "Yes"
• Tak, the Dutch word for branch
• Tak, the Norwegian word for "Roof"
• Tak, the Ukrainian word meaning "Yes" and "so". Also, it was one of the slogans of Orange Revolution. Viktor Yushchenko used it in his pre-election campaign in 2004. Some people highlighted "TAK" in certain words to make them appear "orange", for example "TAKing", or "overTAKe". Later, it was used by "Ne tak" (Not Tak) bloc electioneering campaign as opposed to the politics of Yushchenko. However, they were defeated

Places

• Tak Province, a northern province in Thailand
• Tak (town), the capital of Tak Province in Thailand
• Tak district, the district around the town

History

• Tak (Taank) Kingdom, an early medieval Kingdom in northwest India (Punjab), possibly of Hua (Hepthalite) descent.

People

• Tak (rapper), a rapper and member of Styles of Beyond
• Tak Sakaguchi, actor and action hero of cult-Japanese action movie Versus
• Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist

Pop culture

• Tak and the Power of Juju, Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams, and Tak: The Great Juju Challenge, video games
• Tak (Invader Zim), a character from the animated television series Invader Zim
• Tak, a powerful, disembodied extradimensional entity in the Stephen King Universe and the main villain in his novel Desperation and the Richard Bachman novel The Regulators

Other

• Tak (function), a recursive mathematical function
• the IATA airport code of Takamatsu Airport

TAK may be a three-letter acronym for:

• Tallinna Autobussikoondis (Tallinn Bus Company in English)
• Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan (Kurdistan Freedom Falcons in English)
• Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor (TAK), a lossless audio codec, currently written in Pascal.
• Total Annihilation: Kingdoms (TAK), a computer game
• Taal Aktie Komitee (Language Action Committee), a part of the Flemish nationalist thinktank Flemish People's Movement