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Polish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -anka
- Syllabification: ko‧pan‧ka
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish kopanka. By surface analysis, kopać + -anka.
Noun
kopanka f
- (archaic) dugout, earth shelter, zemlyanka
- Synonym: ziemianka
- (historical) unit of area, equivalent to 19.95 m²
Declension
Etymology 2
From kopań + -ka.
Noun
kopanka f
- (Kuyavia) diminutive of kopań
- (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Near Masovian) Synonym of niecka
Further reading
- kopanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kopanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “kopanka”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34
- Artur Gruszecki, editor (1887), “kopanka”, in “Słowniczek spod Zakroczymia”, in Wisła : miesięcznik geograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 318