Jump to content

smółka

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Polish

[edit]
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

[edit]

From smoła +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

[edit]
 
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uwka
  • Syllabification: smół‧ka
  • Homophone: Smółka

Noun

[edit]

smółka f

  1. (uncountable) soot (black deposits resulting from the burning of coal, wood, plants, etc.)
  2. (uncountable, medicine) meconium (a dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn)
  3. (countable) catchfly (any plant of the genus Viscaria)
  4. (uncountable, botany) pitch (young resin on coniferous trees)
    1. (Kielce) this resin used medicinally
  5. (uncountable, botany) pitch (cell sap of some plants, with a consistency resembling tar)

Declension

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • smółka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • smółka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “smółka”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 253