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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old East Slavic колпакъ (kolpakŭ), from Ottoman Turkish قلپاق.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔwpak
- Syllabification: koł‧pak
Noun
kołpak m inan (diminutive kołpaczek)
- hubcap
- calpack
- (fishing, Far Masovian) type of net
- Synonym: dyrdáł
- Łapie sie ryby kołpakiem w pojedynke, naganiając do niego zdobyc nogami. ― You catch fish in this net alone, chasing your catch to it with your feet.
Declension
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: քօլփաք (kʻōlpʻakʻ)
Further reading
- kołpak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kołpak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “kołpak”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 206