Raków

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See also: rakow, Rakow, and raków

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Raków

  1. A settlement founded in the Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland in 1569 as the centre of the Polish Brethren, the site of the Racovian Academy 1602–1638 and of the publication of the Racovian Catechism in 1605; formerly a town until 1869, it is now a village of the Republic of Poland and the seat of the gmina wiejska (rural commune) of the same name.
  2. (fully “Gmina Raków”) A gmina wiejska (rural commune) in Kielce County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland, with its seat in the village of the same name.

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Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Raków ?

  1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Raków ?

  1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Raków n (proper noun, genitive Rakóws or (optionally with an article) Raków)

  1. Raków (village and former town in Poland, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC)
    Synonym: Rakau

Declension

Declension of Raków
singular
def. noun
nominative das Raków
genitive des Rakóws, Raków1
dative dem Raków
accusative das Raków

1Optionally with an article.

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

In most cases rak (“crayfish”) +‎ -ów. The name of the most notable village and its namesake commune (sense #2), in Kielce County, comes from Warnia, a Polish coat of arms depicting a crayfish, adopted by the founder of the town Jan Sienieński from his wife Jadwiga Gnoińska. (See the Wikipedia article Polish heraldry for further explanation.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Raków m inan

  1. one of several villages in Poland
  2. a Polish commune (gmina) near Kielce
  3. a district (dzielnica) of Częstochowa
  4. a neighbourhood (osiedle) of Warsaw, in the district of Włochy
  5. Polish name of Ракаў (Rakaŭ), an agro-town in Belarus

Declension

Declension of Raków
singular
nominative Raków
genitive Rakowa
dative Rakowowi
accusative Raków
instrumental Rakowem
locative Rakowie
vocative Rakowie

Descendants

  • Dutch: Raków
  • English: Raków
  • French: Raków
  • German: Raków
  • Latin: Racōvia
  • Spanish: Raków

Further reading

  • Raków in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Raków ?

  1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

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