dajka

== Hungarian == === Etymology === Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian дойка (dojka, “nurse, wet-nurse”), Serbo-Croatian dojka (“breast”), Slovak dojka (“wet-nurse, nurse cow”), from Proto-Slavic *dojiti (“to suckle, to milk”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈdɒjkɒ] Hyphenation: daj‧ka Rhymes: -kɒ === Noun === dajka (plural dajkák) (dated) synonym of szoptatós dajka (“wet nurse”, a woman hired to suckle another woman’s child) nurse, nanny, fostress (a woman who takes care of other people’s young, especially in a day nursery) Synonyms: dada, dadus, pesztra, pesztonka ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === dajka in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. dajka in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).