čekrk

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیقریق (çıkrık), چقرق (çıkrık). First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃěkrk/
  • Hyphenation: če‧krk

Noun

čèkrk m (Cyrillic spelling чѐкрк)

  1. (regional) winch (machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a pawl, and a crank handle)

Declension

Declension of čekrk
singular plural
nominative čekrk čekrci
genitive čekrka čekrka
dative čekrku čekrcima
accusative čekrk čekrke
vocative čekrče čekrci
locative čekrku čekrcima
instrumental čekrkom čekrcima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čèkrk”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 124

Further reading

  • “čekrk” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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