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Date: April 2nd, 2008

Ar(r)a(c)k Disambiguation

2 April, 2008 (12:59) | Spirits | 6 comments

Danger! Spirits Geekery Ahead!
There are at least three different spirits that share a similarly spelled name, Ar(r)a(c)k.
The reason for this is that the Arabic word for something that means, more or less, “booze,” sounds like Arak. Well, actually, according to Wikipedia, it means sweat or juice, and seems to refer to way the [...]