"menk" meaning in English

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