калека

Russian

Alternative forms
  • каля́ка (kaljáka), каля́га (kaljága) (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قالیق‎ (qalyq).

Older sources derived from Persian کالک‎ (kâlak, “hideous”) via Ottoman Turkish كالك‎ (kālak).

The word кали́ка (kalíka, “wanderer”) may be related.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɐˈlʲekə]

Noun

кале́ка • (kaléka) m anim or f anim (genitive кале́ки, nominative plural кале́ки, genitive plural кале́к)

  1. cripple (person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities; has some negative connotation)

Declension
Declension of кале́ка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative кале́ка
kaléka		 кале́ки
kaléki
genitive кале́ки
kaléki		 кале́к
kalék
dative кале́ке
kaléke		 кале́кам
kalékam
accusative кале́ку
kaléku		 кале́к
kalék
instrumental кале́кой, кале́кою
kalékoj, kalékoju		 кале́ками
kalékami
prepositional кале́ке
kaléke		 кале́ках
kalékax

References
  • Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Winter, page 473
  • Vasmer, Max (1967), “калека”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume II, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 166
  • Matzenauer, Antonín (1870), “калика”, in Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 39
  • Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1985), “каліка”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume II, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, page 352ab
  • Miklosich, Franz (1886) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen (in German), Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 109b
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