balka

== Kashubian == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Slovincian balka and Polish belka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/ Rhymes: -alka Syllabification: bal‧ka === Noun === balka m inan beam (large piece of timber or iron) (agriculture) upper beam of a yoke stripe (badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces) bale; ream (roll of fabric, paper; compressed and packed cuboid of various materials) === Further reading === Stefan Ramułt (1893), “balka”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 4 Sychta, Bernard (1967), “balka”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 16 Jan Trepczyk (1994), “belka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2 Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “belka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1] “balka”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022 == Maltese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/ Rhymes: -alka === Verb === balka (imperfect jbalki) alternative form of bbalka: to abate, to calm down ==== Conjugation ==== == Old Polish == === Alternative forms === balk === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle High German balke. First attested in 1459. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /baːlʲka/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /bɒlʲka/ === Noun === balka f (attested in Greater Poland) beam (large piece of timber or iron) ==== Descendants ==== Polish: belka, bałk, belk, bełk, bełka (Middle Polish), balk, balka, bałek, bałka, belek (obsolete) Silesian: bŏlka, balek, balk, belek, bŏlek === References === Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “belka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “belka”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(belka) balk, balka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Slovincian == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Balken. Compare Kashubian balka and Polish belka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbal.ka/ Rhymes: -alka Syllabification: bal‧ka === Noun === balka f (diminutive balczica, augmentative balcziszczô, related adjective balkôwy) beam (large piece of timber or iron) ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “bãlkă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 14