žurka
See also: žurkā
Latvian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
žurka m
žurka f (4th declension)
- rat (esp. genus Rattus)
- žurku slazds ― a rat (= mouse) trap
- žurku inde ― rat poison
- žurku zāles ― rat medicine (= poison)
- slapjš kā (ūdens) žurka ― as wet as a (water) rat
- pliks kā baznīcas žurka ― as naked as a church rat (= very poor)
Declension edit
Declension of žurka (4th declension)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- pele f
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “žurka”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
žurka f (Cyrillic spelling журка)
Usage notes edit
The more common locative/dative form of žurka in the colloquial language is žurci, while žurki is the normative form.
Declension edit
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