ćurka
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From ćùrān.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ɕûːrka/, (Croatia) /t͡ɕǔːrka/
- Hyphenation: ćur‧ka
Noun
ćȗrka or (Croatia) ćúrka f (Cyrillic spelling ћу̑рка or ћу́рка)
- a female turkey
- (vulgar) a dumb female
Usage notes
Only used for a living animal, not for the meat.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ćurka | ćurke |
| genitive | ćurke | ćuraka / ćurki |
| dative | ćurci | ćurkama |
| accusative | ćurku | ćurke |
| vocative | ćurko | ćurke |
| locative | ćurci | ćurkama |
| instrumental | ćurkom | ćurkama |
Related terms
Further reading
- “ćurka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025