poliwanka

Polish

Etymology

From polewać +‎ -anka.

Pronunciation

Noun

poliwanka f

  1. (Eastern Kraków) large bucket on three legs with a hole at the bottom

Further reading

  • Błażej Pawłowicz (1892) “poliwanka”, in “Wyrazy gwarowe z okolic Tarnowa”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 308
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