kilka

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Determiner

kilka

  1. more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [with genitive]
    Synonyms: kilkoro, parę
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Trivia

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

Borrowed from Russian ки́лька (kílʹka).

Noun

kilka f

  1. any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
Declension

Further reading

Anagrams

Romani

Noun

kilka f (plural kilki)

  1. bun (hairstyle)

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

kilka

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

Further reading

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