žurka

žurka

See also: žurkā

Latvian

Žurka

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) šurks, žorks, žurks

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 form) genitive singular form 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

• žurkulēns

See also

• pele f

References

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

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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