чурка

Bulgarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃu̟rkɐ]

Noun

чу́рка • (čúrka) f

1. (dialectal) small scion, sprout (of a plant)
2. (dialectal) cricket (insect)

   Synonym: щуре́ц (šturéc)

3. (children's language) wienie, wee-wee (little boy's genitalia)

Declension

Declension of чу́рка

	singular	plural
indefinite	чу́рка čúrka	чу́рки čúrki
definite	чу́рката čúrkata	чу́рките čúrkite

Related terms

• чу́ркам (čúrkam, “to wee”) (children's language)
• чучу́р (čučúr, “spout”)

See also

• чур (čur, “smoke”), чуря́ (čurjá, “to fume”) (dialectal, probably unrelated)

References

• “чурка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “чурка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “чю́рка”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 567

Russian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Lithuanian kiáuras, Latvian саũrs, Lithuanian kiùrstu, kiuraũ, kiùrti, skiaurė̃, Middle High German schore. Less likely Polish szczur (“rat”).

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *чуръ or Inherited from Proto-Slavic *щуръ which means "a stump", Proto-Indo-European *[s]keu.

The pejorative sense of "Caucasian or Central Asian immigrant", while being a semantic narrowing of the word used towards dumb people in general, may have been influenced phonetically by words like чёрный (čórnyj, “black”) and -ка (-ka, “little”), referring to the immigrants' darker skin tones, or by черке́с (čerkés).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɕurkə]

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Noun

чу́рка • (čúrka) f inan (genitive чу́рки, nominative plural чу́рки, genitive plural чу́рок)

1. chock, block of wood, a small, severed part of a tree

Declension

Declension of чу́рка (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	чу́рка čúrka	чу́рки čúrki
genitive	чу́рки čúrki	чу́рок čúrok
dative	чу́рке čúrke	чу́ркам čúrkam
accusative	чу́рку čúrku	чу́рки čúrki
instrumental	чу́ркой, чу́ркою čúrkoj, čúrkoju	чу́рками čúrkami
prepositional	чу́рке čúrke	чу́рках čúrkax

Noun

чу́рка • (čúrka) m anim or f anim (genitive чу́рки, nominative plural чу́рки, genitive plural чу́рок)

1. (colloquial) dumb, uneducated person, dullard, booby

   Synonym: чурба́н (čurbán)

2. (offensive, ethnic slur) immigrant from Central Asia or the Caucasus, wog

   Synonyms: чучмек (čučmek), чурба́н (čurbán)

Declension

Declension of чу́рка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	чу́рка čúrka	чу́рки čúrki
genitive	чу́рки čúrki	чу́рок čúrok
dative	чу́рке čúrke	чу́ркам čúrkam
accusative	чу́рку čúrku	чу́рок čúrok
instrumental	чу́ркой, чу́ркою čúrkoj, čúrkoju	чу́рками čúrkami
prepositional	чу́рке čúrke	чу́рках čúrkax

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чурка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress