Raków

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹækuːf/

Raków

1. A settlement founded in the Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland in 1569 as the centre of the Polish Brethren, the site of the Racovian Academy 1602–1638 and of the publication of the Racovian Catechism in 1605; formerly a town until 1869, it is now a village of the Republic of Poland and the seat of the gmina wiejska (rural commune) of the same name.
2. (fully “Gmina Raków”) A gmina wiejska (rural commune) in Kielce County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland, with its seat in the village of the same name.

• Racovian

• Raków (Polish town 1569–1869, village 1869–present) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gmina Raków on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Karow, awork, rowka

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

Raków ?

1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

• Raków (powiat Kielecki) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɔv/

Raków ?

1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

• Raków (powiat de Kielce) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁakʊf/

Raków n (proper noun, genitive Rakóws or (optionally with an article) Raków)

1. Raków (village and former town in Poland, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC)

   Synonym: Rakau

• Raków (Powiat Kielecki) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

In most cases rak (“crayfish”) +‎ -ów. The name of the most notable village and its namesake commune (sense #2), in Kielce County, comes from Warnia, a Polish coat of arms depicting a crayfish, adopted by the founder of the town Jan Sienieński from his wife Jadwiga Gnoińska. (See the Wikipedia article Polish heraldry for further explanation.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.kuf/
• Rhymes: -akuf
• Syllabification: Ra‧ków
• Homophone: raków

Raków m inan

1. one of several villages in Poland
2. a Polish commune (gmina) near Kielce
3. a district (dzielnica) of Częstochowa
4. a neighbourhood (osiedle) of Warsaw, in the district of Włochy
5. Polish name of Ракаў (Rakaŭ), an agro-town in Belarus

• Raków in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

• IPA^(key): /raˈkob/ [raˈkoβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ob

Raków ?

1. Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

• Raków on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es