menk

1. RussiauncountableartsAn animal described by the Mansi as a "forest giant", with anatomical features similar to a yeti, said to live in the area of Khantia-Mansia, Russia.

   This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.

   1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79

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   Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.

   1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective

   A new documentary, “Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives” airing June 1 on the Discovery Channel explores the remote possibility that a “menk” — the Russian^([sic – meaning Mansi]) word for Yeti — may have been responsible.

   2014, “Mysterious Deaths Of College Students Blamed On ‘Russian Yeti’”, in Huffington Post

   Synonyms: yeti, Russian yeti

plural Menks

1. A surname from German.