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Polish
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps related to Proto-Slavic *klęča, whence Polish klacz.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛmpa
- Syllabification: klę‧pa
Noun
klępa f
- female moose; female Eurasian elk (Alces alces)
- Synonyms: łosica, łosza
- (rare) cow (female Bos taurus)
- (Kuyavia, Far Masovian, Malbork) old cow
- (rare) mare (female horse)
- (derogatory) unattractive, shabby or arrogant woman
Declension
Further reading
- klępa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- klępa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кляп”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Oskar Kolberg (1867) “klempa”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “klempa”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 111
- Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “klępa”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 745