baniak

== English == === Alternative forms === banyak buniak bunyak === Etymology === From Ukrainian баня́к (banják, “cooking pot”). === Noun === baniak (plural baniaks) (humorous derogatory slang, chiefly italicized) A fool. 1987: Janice Kulyk Keefer, “Unseen, the cuckoo sings at dawn”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 103: “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole? 1987: Michael John Nimchuk, “The day my grandad died”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 172: No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance. 1988: Levi Dronyk, “The puck artist”, in Doug Beardsley ed., The rocket, the flower, the hammer, and me, Vancouver: Polestar Books, pp 161: Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted. “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?” ==== Usage notes ==== Usually italicized as a foreign term not fully naturalized in English. === Anagrams === Ibanak, bakain, Abnaki == Polish == === Alternative forms === baniák (Przemyśl) beniák (Western Lublin, Kamionka) === Etymology === From bania +‎ -ak. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɲak Syllabification: ba‧niak === Noun === baniak m inan (diminutive baniaczek) (colloquial or dialectal, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship, Krasnystaw County, Lubartów County, Hrubieszów) carboy, demijohn Synonyms: gąsior, sagan ==== Declension ==== === Noun === baniak m inan (colloquial, humorous) head Synonyms: bania, baśka, głowa, główka, głowina, łepetyna, łeb, pała, (literary) skroń, makówka ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === baniak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN baniak in Polish dictionaries at PWN Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “baniak”, 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 182