For the South East Asian liquor, see
Arrack Arak or araq (
Arabic: عرق
IPA [ʕaraq], oghi in the Armenian language , is a clear, colourless, unsweetened
aniseed-flavoured
distilled alcoholic drink, produced in the eastern
Mediterranean countries (and territories) of
Armenia,
Iran,
Iraq,
Israel,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Palestine and
Syria. The word comes from
Arabic araq عرق, which also means "
sweat". Arak is not to be confused with the similarly named liquor,
arrack.
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