chéra

See also: chera

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “probably a clipping of cholera, but compare cherlać”)

Pronunciation

Noun

chéra f

  1. (Far Masovian) synonym of choroba (“disease”)
    Taká chéra go sie chyciła. ― This disease took him.

Interjection

chéra

  1. (Near Masovian) synonym of cholera (“damn it!”)

Further reading

  • Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “chéra”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 240
  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “chéra”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 205
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