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Polish
Etymology
Back-formation from bałakać.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈba.wak/
- Rhymes: -awak
- Syllabification: ba‧łak
Noun
bałak m inan
- (Lviv) Lvivian Polish, Lwów subdialect (the regional dialect found in Lviv)
2006, Adam Kulewski, Lwów: przewodnik, Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", →ISBN, page 20:Jednym z elementów bałaku były idiomy: „Anglik z Kołomyji" — który oznaczał wg dzisiejszych norm „szpanera".- One of the elements of balak were the idioms "an Englishman from Kolomyya", which meant, according to today's standards "flashy dresser".
Declension
Further reading
- bałak in Polish dictionaries at PWN