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Czech
Etymology
Uncertain. First attested in the 20th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧láš
Noun
papaláš m anim (female equivalent papaláška)
- (informal, usually derogatory) big cheese (important person within an organisation)
1982, Vladimír Páral, Muka obraznosti:
1985, Martina Navrátilová, Já jsem já:Jeden vládní papaláš byl tenisový fanda a neustále do mě hučel, abych vstoupila do strany a chodila na schůze- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1990, Ján Moravec, Antipoučení:
2004, Zdeněk Novák, Swing a svoboda za mřížemi:Z toho jsem usoudil, že tenhle Štěpán musel být nějaký důležitý papaláš a řekl jsem si, že se jeho příjmení musím nějak dozvědět- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of papaláš (soft masculine animate)
Further reading
- “papaláš”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “papaláš”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Slovak
Etymology
Uncertain. First attested in the 20th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
papaláš m pers (diminutive papalášik)
- (informal, usually derogatory) big cheese (important person within an organisation)
Declension
Declension of
papaláš (pattern
chlap)
References
Further reading
- “papaláš”, 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