качка

Borrowed from Polish kaczka.

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ка́чка • (káčka) f animal (genitive ка́чкі, nominative plural ка́чкі, genitive plural ка́чак)

1. duck

• качкано́с (kačkanós)

• “качка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

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From Proto-Slavic *kačьka, either onomatopoeic or expressive. Equivalent to ка́чам (káčam, “to swindle”) (colloquial) +‎ -ка (-ka). In other Slavic languages means duck, e.g. Polish kaczka, Czech kačka, Russian ка́чка (káčka), Ukrainian ка́чка (káčka).

ка́чка • (káčka) f

1. (dialectal) snowdrop (flower of genus Galanthus)

   Synonyms: коки́че (kokíče), (dialectal) белу́чка (belúčka)

2. (dialectal) poet's daffodil (flower of genus Narcissus)

   Synonyms: бя́ло лале́ (bjálo lalé), качу́нка (kačúnka)

• кача́лка (kačálka, “peg”) (dialectal)
• качу́н (kačún), качу́нка (kačúnka, “type of flower”) (dialectal)

• “качка³”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Nayden Gerov (1897) “ка́чка”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 357

ка́ца (káca) +‎ -ка (-ka)

ка́чка • (káčka) f

1. (dialectal) diminutive of ка́ца (káca, “barrel”)

   Synonym: каче́ (kačé)

• кад (kad, “vat”) (dialectal)

• “качка²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Borrowed from Russian ка́чка (káčka, “rolling”).

ка́чка • (káčka) f

1. (nautical) rolling, pitching (of nautical vessel)

• ката́я (katája, “to roll, to sway”) (dialectal)

• “качка¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

From Old Slovak kačka. Cognates include Slovak kačka and Polish kaczka.

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• Hyphenation: кач‧ка

качка (kačka) f (related adjective качи)

1. duck

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “качка”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy

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ка́чка • (káčka) f inan (genitive ка́чки, nominative plural ка́чки, genitive plural ка́чек)

1. (nautical) rolling, pitching
2. (regional) duck

   Synonym: у́тка (útka)

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качка́ • (kačká) m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of качо́к (kačók)

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Probably of imitative origin, similar to Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.

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ка́чка • (káčka) f animal (genitive ка́чки, nominative plural качки́, genitive plural качо́к, masculine ка́чур, relational adjective кача́чий or качи́ний or качури́ний, diminutive кача́ or кача́тко or кача́точко or каченя́ or каченя́тко)

1. duck

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “качка”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “качка”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)