praska

See also: praská, praską, praška, and práská

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpras.ka/

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈpras.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: pras‧ka

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.

Proto-Italic *pres-

Latin premō

Latin pressusder.

Middle High German prëssebor.

Old Polish prasa

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German Pressesl.

French pressesl.

Polish prasa

Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der.

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ

Proto-Slavic *-ъka

Old Polish -ka

Polish -ka

Polish praska

From prasa + -ka.

Noun

praska f

1. press, ricer

   praska do ziemniaków ― potato ricer

   praska do czosnku ― garlic press

2. (Near Masovian, Podole) synonym of żelazko (“clothing iron”)

Declension

Declension of praska

	singular	plural
nominative	praska	praski
genitive	praski	prasek
dative	prasce	praskom
accusative	praskę	praski
instrumental	praską	praskami
locative	prasce	praskach
vocative	prasko	praski

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

praska

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of praski

Further reading

• “praska”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “praska”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 237

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

praska (Cyrillic spelling праска)

1. genitive singular of prasak