balka

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Kashubian

Etymology

    Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Slovincian balka and Polish belka.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/
    • Rhymes: -alka
    • Syllabification: bal‧ka

    Noun

    balka m inan

    1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)
      1. (agriculture) upper beam of a yoke
    2. stripe (badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces)
    3. bale; ream (roll of fabric, paper; compressed and packed cuboid of various materials)

    Further reading

    • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “balka”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 4
    • Sychta, Bernard (1967) “balka”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 16
    • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “belka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
    • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “belka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
    • balka”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

    Maltese

    Root
    b-l-k-j
    1 term

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    balka (imperfect jbalki)

    1. Alternative form of bbalka: to abate, to calm down

    Conjugation

        Conjugation of balka
    singular plural
    1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
    perfect m balkejt balkejt balka balkejna balkejtu balkew
    f balkiet
    imperfect m nbalki tbalki jbalki nbalku tbalku jbalku
    f tbalki
    imperative balki balku

    Old Polish

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Middle High German balke. First attested in 1459.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /baːlʲka/
      • IPA(key): (15th CE) /bɒlʲka/

      Noun

      balka f

      1. (attested in Greater Poland) beam (large piece of timber or iron)
        • 1925 [1459], Kazimierz Kaczmarczyk, editor, Akta radzieckie poznańskie. Acta consularia Posnaniensia, volume I, Poznań, page 294:
          Tramites al. balky
          [Tramites al. balki]

      Descendants

      References

      Slovincian

      Etymology

        Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Kashubian balka and Polish belka.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/
        • Rhymes: -alka
        • Syllabification: bal‧ka

        Noun

        balka f (diminutive balczica, augmentative balcziszczô, related adjective balkôwy)

        1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)
        nouns

        Further reading