"menk" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Northern Mansi менкв (menkw)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1996, Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, page 79",
          "text": "This figure is called menk in Ob-Ugrian folklore and ritual.",
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          "ref": "1999, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective",
          "text": "Although doors were jammed shut, the menk burst in with huge birch masks covered with hair made of hay.",
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        "An 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."
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        "(Russia, cryptozoology, folklore) An 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."
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