Warka

See also: warka, warką, and Warką

English

Etymology

From Arabic وركاء.

Proper noun

Warka

1. Synonym of Uruk, the ancient city or the modern archaeological site.
   • 1936, M. E. L. Mallowan, Review of The Development of Sumerian Art, by Leonard Woolley, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 337:

     The discovery in Uruk of a brecciated limestone vase of the Jamdat Nasr period made of a material almost certainly imported from the Mosul area, and the occurrence at Gawrah and Warka of the curious double looped idols seems to me significant evidence of a close contact between Assyria and Sumer at this period.

   • 1983, Carsten Colpe, “Development of Religious Thought”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, number 2, Springer, page 844:

     For some unknown reason, Parthian art in Palmyra, Assur, Hatra, Dura-Europos, Warka, Tang-i Sarvak and Shāmi presents a different picture.

   • 2013, Guillermo Algaze, “The End of Prehistory and the Uruk Period”, in Harriet Crawford, editor, The Sumerian World, Routledge, page 74:

     […] there is general agreement that Nissen’s (2003) estimate of the population of Warka in the Late Uruk period at 40,000 or so people probably represents a reasonable approximation.

Derived terms

• Uruk-Warka

Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvar.ka/

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• Rhymes: -arka
• Syllabification: War‧ka
• Homophone: warka

Proper noun

Warka f (related adjective warecki, demonym Warczanin, female demonym Warczanka)

1. Warka (a town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)

Declension

Declension of Warka

	singular
nominative	Warka
genitive	Warki
dative	Warce
accusative	Warkę
instrumental	Warką
locative	Warce
vocative	Warko

Further reading

• “Warka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “Warka”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)