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Polish
Etymology
From półtora + -ak.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔrak
- Syllabification: pół‧to‧rak
Noun
półtorak m inan (diminutive półtoraczek)
- (colloquial) hand-and-a-half sword, bastard sword
- Synonym: miecz półtoraręczny
- mead with a 1:0.5 honey-to-water ratio
- Coordinate terms: czwórniak, dwójniak, trójniak
- (dialectal) one and a half story house
- (Near Masovian) wide and strong wagon
Declension
Further reading
- półtorak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- półtorak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “półtorak”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 367