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Polish
Etymology
From drapać + -ak.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -apak
- Syllabification: dra‧pak
Noun
drapak m inan
- (colloquial or dialectal, Central Greater Poland) broom that is scratched out from sweeping
- Synonym: (dialectal) drapacz
- Alternative form: (dialectal) drapaka
- cat tree, scratching post
- (nautical) grapnel (small anchor)
- (colloquial) ugly conifer
Declension
Further reading
- drapak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- drapak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “drapak”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18