калка

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from French calque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫkɐ]

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• Hyphenation: кал‧ка

Noun

ка́лка • (kálka) f

1. calque

Declension

Declension of ка́лка

	singular	plural
indefinite	ка́лка kálka	ка́лки kálki
definite	ка́лката kálkata	ка́лките kálkite

Related terms

• калки́рам impf or pf (kalkíram, “to calque”)

References

• “калка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “калка”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫka]

Noun

калка • (kalka) f

1. calque

Declension

Declension of калка

	singular	plural
indefinite	калка	калки
definite unspecified	калката	калките
definite proximal	калкава	калкиве
definite distal	калкана	калкине
vocative	калко	калки

Southern Altai

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Turkic *Kạl(ɨ)- (kalk(ɨ)-).

Noun

калка • (kalka)

1. shield of shed
2. Khalkha

References

• “калка”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN, page 187
• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, columns 250, 251
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura