žurka
See also: žurkā
Latvian
Alternative forms
Etymology
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] Compare Lithuanian žiurkė.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʒùɾka], IPA(key): [ˈʒūɾka]
Noun
žurka m
- (dialectal) genitive singular of žurks
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
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | žurka | žurkas |
| genitive | žurkas | žurku |
| dative | žurkai | žurkām |
| accusative | žurku | žurkas |
| instrumental | žurku | žurkām |
| locative | žurkā | žurkās |
| vocative | žurka | žurkas |
Derived terms
See also
- pele f
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “žurka”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒûrka/
- Hyphenation: ʒûr‧ka
Noun
žȗrka f (Cyrillic spelling жу̑рка)
Usage notes
The more common locative/dative form of žurka in the colloquial language is žurci, while žurki is the normative form.