perlik

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See also: perlík

Polish

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Pronunciation

 
  • Rhymes: -ɛrlik
  • Syllabification: per‧lik

Etymology 1

From perła +‎ -ik. Partial calque of German Perlhuhn.

Noun

perlik m animal

  1. male helmeted guineafowl
  2. green-backed twinspot, Mandingoa nitidula
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Etymology 2

Compare Czech perlík and Silesian pyrlik. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

perlik m inan

  1. (mining) miner's hammer
    Synonyms: kijania, pucka
  2. (Near Masovian) type of heavy hammer with a surface that has teeth used for working millstones
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Further reading

  • perlik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “perlik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 116
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “perlik”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 367