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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schinken.
Pronunciation
Noun
šunka f (related adjective šunkový)
- ham (thigh of a hog cured for food)
Declension
Declension of šunka (hard feminine reducible)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “šunka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “šunka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “šunka”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schinken.
Noun
šȗnka f (Cyrillic spelling шу̑нка)
- ham
Declension
Derived terms
Slovene
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schinken (perhaps specifically from Gottscheerish šunkhn).
Pronunciation
Noun
šȗnka f
- ham (thigh of a hog cured for food)
Inflection
Further reading
- “šunka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024