žurka

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See also: žurkā

Latvian

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Žurka

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Etymology

Borrowed from Polish szczurek (little rat, mouse), diminutive of szczur (rat), first mentioned in the 17th century, apparently still as a foreign word; in the 18th century, it had already acquired its present form (but compare dialectal variants žurks, žorks, šurks). [1]

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Noun

žurka m

  1. (dialectal) genitive singular of žurks

žurka f (4th declension)

  1. rat (esp. genus Rattus)
    žurku slazdsa rat (= mouse) trap
    žurku inderat poison
    žurku zālesrat medicine (= poison)
    slapjš kā (ūdens) žurkaas wet as a (water) rat
    pliks kā baznīcas žurkaas naked as a church rat (= very poor)

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References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “žurka”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

žurka f (Cyrillic spelling журка)

  1. party

Usage notes

The more common locative/dative form of žurka in the colloquial language is žurci, while žurki is the normative form.

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