fujara
See also: fujarą
English edit
Noun edit
fujara (plural fujaras)
- a flute-like woodwind musical instrument from Slovakia.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Romanian,[1] further traceable to Latin.[2] Cognates can be found in Greek, Albanian, Aromanian and Dacian.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fujara f
- (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument
Declension edit
See also edit
- fujara on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia cs
References edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Czech fujara, from Romanian fluier.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fujara m animal or f
- (colloquial, derogatory) butterfingers (person who is ungraceful or sluggish)[1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
- 2007 February 10, Arkadiusz Adamkowski, “Kampania wyborcza. Zawodowcy i amatorzy”, in gazeta.pl[1], Agora SA:
- Fujara, kto nie potrafi wykorzystać samobója, jakiego swojej płockiej PiS-owskiej drużynie strzelił premier Kaczyński [...]
- A butterfingers who can't take advantage of the suicide goal that the prime minister Kaczyński shot for the Płock PiS team [...]
Declension edit
Masculine declension:
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Noun edit
fujara f (diminutive fujarka)
- small, simple folk instrument, usually made of fresh willow bark, typically a kind of short folk pipe[2][3][4]
- Synonyms: fletnia, fujarka, piszczałka
- 1888, Julian Kołaczkowski, Wiadomości tyczące się przemysłu i sztuki w dawnej Polsce, page 218:
- [...] różniącym się od dzisiejszej fujarki, zatem może najdawniejszym instrumentem na świecie... Fujara, rodzaj piszczałki pasterskiej, gąśle, gędźba, gęśle podgórskie, jedno z najdawniejszych słowiańskich instrumentów [...]
- [...] different from the modern fujarka, might be the oldest instrument in the world... The fujara, a type of pastoral pipe, or gusles, one of the strangest Slavic instruments [...]
- (slang, vulgar) penis[4][1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie
- 1901, Jan Karłowic, Słownik gwar polskich[2], volume 2:
- Pochować go [...] trzeba Plecami do ziemi, fujarą do nieba.
- We've got to bury him [...], back to the ground, penis to the sky.
Declension edit
Declension of fujara
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Online Polish Slang Dictionary (in English and Polish) by scientists of University of Gdańsk, 1998.
- ^ A Concise English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary, wikipedia:pl:Tadeusz Grzebieniowski, wikipedia:pl:Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, 1958–1975.
- ^ Online Polish-English Dictionary by the largest Polish portal Onet.pl (Kraków).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dictionary of Polish dialects (Polish: Słownik gwar polskich), vol. 2, p. 33, wikipedia:pl:Jan Karłowicz, Kraków, 1901.
Further reading edit
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fujara f (genitive singular fujary, nominative plural fujary, genitive plural fujár, declension pattern of žena)
- (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument
Declension edit
Declension of fujara
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- fujara on the Slovak Wikipedia.Wikipedia sk
Further reading edit
- “fujara”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024