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]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʒùrka], IPA(key): [ʒūrka]

Noun

žurka m

  1. (dialectal) genitive singular of žurks

žurka f (4th declension)

  1. 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
Declension of žurka (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) žurka žurkas
accusative (akuzatīvs) žurku žurkas
genitive (ģenitīvs) žurkas žurku
dative (datīvs) žurkai žurkām
instrumental (instrumentālis) žurku žurkām
locative (lokatīvs) žurkā žurkās
vocative (vokatīvs) žurka žurkas

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “žurka”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

žurka f (Cyrillic spelling журка)

  1. party

Usage notes

The more common locative/dative form of žurka in the colloquial language is žurci, while žurki is the normative form.

Declension
Declension of žurka
singular plural
nominative žurka žurke
genitive žurke žurki
dative žurci/žurki žurkama
accusative žurku žurke
vocative žurko žurke
locative žurci/žurki žurkama
instrumental žurkom žurkama
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