See also: kilkä

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkil.ka/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkil.ka/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ilka
  • Syllabification: kil‧ka

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Determiner edit

kilka

  1. more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [+genitive]
    Synonyms: kilkoro, parę
Declension edit
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Derived terms edit
numerals
prefixes

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kilka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 84 times in news, 73 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 400 times, making it the 120th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Russian ки́лька (kílʹka).

Noun edit

kilka f

  1. any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
Declension edit

Further reading edit

Romani edit

 
kilka

Noun edit

kilka f (plural kilki)

  1. bun (hairstyle)

Silesian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkilka/
  • Rhymes: -ilka
  • Syllabification: kil‧ka

Numeral edit

kilka

  1. more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [+genitive]
    Synonym: pŏrã

Further reading edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kilka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[4] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 177