A strong alcoholic drink made from grapes or other fruits, especially popular in Turkey and the Balkans.
From Turkish 'rakı', derived from Arabic 'arak' (to sweat or drip). The word entered European languages through Ottoman trade networks, and it originally referred to any distilled spirit.
Raki is so culturally important in Turkey that there's an entire tradition of 'rakı culture' where drinking the clear spirit with food and friends is a social ritual as important as the drink itself.
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