kofa

Of unknown origin.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ko‧fa
• Rhymes: -fɒ

kofa (plural kofák)

1. a woman who sells vegetables, fish, etc. in a market, a vendor
2. (by extension) gossip, chatterbox

• kofa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔːva/

  Rhymes: -ɔːva

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kofa f (genitive singular kofu, nominative plural kofur)

1. a young puffin

   Synonym: pysja

kofa m

1. indefinite accusative singular of kofi
2. indefinite dative singular of kofi
3. indefinite genitive singular of kofi
4. indefinite accusative plural of kofi
5. indefinite genitive plural of kofi

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوغه (kova).

• IPA^(key): /kôfa/
• Hyphenation: ko‧fa

kȍfa f (Cyrillic spelling ко̏фа)

1. pail
2. bucket

Borrowed from Hungarian kofa, further origin unknown. First attested in the 19th century.^[1]

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kofa f

1. (colloquial) vendor, female stallholder

   Synonym: trhovkyňa

• “kofa”, 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