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Polish
Etymology
From kukać + -awka.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -afka
- Syllabification: ku‧kaw‧ka
Noun
kukawka f
- roadrunner (either member of the genus Geococcyx)
- any ground cuckoo of the genus Neomorphus
- (usually in the plural) New World ground cuckoo (bird of the subfamily Neomorphinae)
- (obsolete or regional, Far Masovian) common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
- Synonym: kukułka
- (obsolete or regional) cuckoo (bird-shaped figure in cuckoo clocks)
- Synonym: kukułka
- (rare) a type of musical instrument
Declension
See also
Further reading
- kukawka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “kukawka”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 112