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Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian cirok, which in turn was borrowed from either from a Southern Slavic language (cf. Slovene sírek or Serbo-Croatian sirak), ultimately from Latin (granum) Syricum (“Syrian grain”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cirok m inan (related adjective cirokový)
- sorghum
Declension
Declension of
cirok (pattern
dub)
References
- ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “cirok”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 95
Further reading
- “cirok”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024