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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
łapawka f
- (Central Greater Poland) grass belonging to a house
- Koń kmiecy szczypie łapawkę koło płota. ― The peasant's horse is nibbling at the house grass near the fence.
Further reading
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “łapawka”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 20