piska

piska

1. fish

• World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, →ISBN

• peská (Barlavento)

From Portuguese pescar.

piska

1. (Sotavento) to fish

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Brüser, Martina, dos Reis Santos, André, Lang, Jürgen (2002) Dicionário do Crioulo da Ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde) : com equivalentes de tradução em alemão e português / Wörterbuch des Kreols der Insel Santiago (Kapverde), →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

• pisket

piska

1. simple past of piske
2. past participle of piske

piska

1. fish

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.ka/
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈpis.ka]
• Homophone: Piska

From pisać +‎ -ka.

piska f

1. (Far Masovian, Przemyśl) synonym of pisanka (“pysanka”) (dyed Easter egg with intricate designs)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piska

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of piski

• Antoni Waga (1860) “piska”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 756
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “piska”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 118
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “piska”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 338

Derived from German Peitsche, likely from some Slavic language, compare Czech bič. Verb derived from noun.

piska c

1. a whip, a rope or thong or rod (used to exert control over animals or for corporal punishment)

   piska med en piska

   whip with a whip

   • 1999 November 17, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Johannesevangeliet 2:15”, in Bibel 2000‎^[1], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     Han gjorde en piska av repstumpar och drev ut allesammans ur templet.

     He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple.

Commonly understood as a long rope as used by cowboys and Indiana Jones without further context.

• spö (“whip used for corporal punishment”)

piska (present piskar, preterite piskade, supine piskat, imperative piska)

1. to whip; to hit with a whip.
2. (figuratively) to whip; to urge into action

• piskare
• piska upp (“whip up (a mood or the like)”)
• piskning

• piska in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• piska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• spika