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čuka

//t͡ʃûka//
Serbo-Croatiannoun
Ћирилица: чукаone entry, two scripts

Definitions

  1. 1.
    regionalhill or hillock on one side extremely steep, and the other milder sloped
  2. 2.
    regionalhilltop
  3. 3.
    regionalslangclock, watch
  4. 4.
    regionalslanghour
  5. 5.
    regionalslangheart, ticker

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čuka, *čukъ. Compare Lithuanian čiùkaras (“sharp rock”), dialectal Bulgarian чука́ра (čukára) and dialectal Serbian чу̀кара (“sharp rock”). According to some others, the word is borrowed from the pre-Slavic substratum due to the fact that it's absent in western Slavic-speaking areas. Albanian çukë may be the possible original substratum word, coming from the abovementioned language.

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