parkiet

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Dutch

Een halsbandparkiet (Psittacula krameri)

Etymology

Borrowed from French perroquet, Spanish periquito or Portuguese periquito.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑrˈkit/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: par‧kiet
  • Rhymes: -it

Noun

parkiet m (plural parkieten, diminutive parkietje n)

  1. a parakeet, a budgie; a member of various species of small parrots (not forming a monophyletic clade)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: parkiet
  • Saramaccan: paakíki, paatjítji
  • Sranan Tongo: prakiki

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parquet. For sense 2, compare Finnish parketti.

Pronunciation

Noun

parkiet m inan (diminutive parkiecik)

  1. (architecture) parquet floor
  2. dance floor
  3. (finance) trading floor

Declension

Further reading

  • parkiet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • parkiet in Polish dictionaries at PWN