fujara
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A fujara from Slovakia 
fujary Fujara
See also: fujarą
English
Noun
fujara (plural fujaras)
- a flute-like woodwind musical instrument from Slovakia.
Czech
Etymology
Derived from Romanian fluieră,[1] further tracable to Latin.[2] Cognate with Greek φλογέρα (flogéra), Albanian flojere, Aromanian fluiarã.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
fujara f
- (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument
Declension
See also
fujara on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia cs
References
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Czech fujara, from Romanian fluier.
Pronunciation
Noun
fujara m animal or f
- (colloquial, derogatory or dialectal, Far Masovian) butterfingers (person who is ungraceful or sluggish)[1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
- 2007 February 10, Arkadiusz Adamkowski, “Kampania wyborcza. Zawodowcy i amatorzy”, in gazeta.pl, Agora SA:
- Fujara, kto nie potrafi wykorzystać samobója, jakiego swojej płockiej PiS-owskiej drużynie strzelił premier Kaczyński [...]
- A butterfingers who can't take advantage of the suicide goal that the prime minister Kaczyński shot for the Płock PiS team
Declension
Masculine declension:
Declension of fujara
Feminine declension:
Declension of fujara
Noun
fujara f (diminutive fujarka)
- small, simple folk instrument, usually made of fresh willow bark, typically a kind of short folk pipe[2][3][4]
- Synonyms: fletnia, fujarka, piszczałka
- 1888, Julian Kołaczkowski, Wiadomości tyczące się przemysłu i sztuki w dawnej Polsce, page 218:
- [...] różniącym się od dzisiejszej fujarki, zatem może najdawniejszym instrumentem na świecie... Fujara, rodzaj piszczałki pasterskiej, gąśle, gędźba, gęśle podgórskie, jedno z najdawniejszych słowiańskich instrumentów [...]
- different from the modern fujarka, might be the oldest instrument in the world... The fujara, a type of pastoral pipe, or gusles, one of the strangest Slavic instruments
- (slang, vulgar) penis[4][1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie
Declension
Declension of fujara
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Online Polish Slang Dictionary (in English and Polish) by scientists of University of Gdańsk, 1998.
- ^ A Concise English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary, wikipedia:pl:Tadeusz Grzebieniowski, wikipedia:pl:Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, 1958–1975.
- ^ Online Polish-English Dictionary by the largest Polish portal Onet.pl (Kraków).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dictionary of Polish dialects (Polish: Słownik gwar polskich), vol. 2, p. 33, wikipedia:pl:Jan Karłowicz, Kraków, 1901.
Further reading
- fujara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fujara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fujara”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108
Slovak
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fujara f (relational adjective fujarový, diminutive fujarka or fujarôčka)
- (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument
Declension
Declension of fujara (pattern žena)
Derived terms
See also
- fujara on the Slovak Wikipedia.Wikipedia sk
Further reading
- “fujara”, 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