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чурка

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Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Noun

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чу́рка (čúrkaf

  1. (dialectal) small scion, sprout (of a plant)
  2. (dialectal) cricket (insect)
    Synonym: щуре́ц (šturéc)
  3. (children's language) wienie, wee-wee (little boy's genitalia)

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See also

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  • чур (čur, smoke), чуря́ (čurjá, to fume) (dialectal, probably unrelated)

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Russian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Lithuanian kiáuras, Latvian саũrs, Lithuanian kiùrstu, kiuraũ, kiùrti, skiaurė̃, Middle High German schore. Less likely Polish szczur (rat).

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čurъ or *ščurъ from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew-.

The pejorative sense of "Caucasian or Central Asian immigrant", while being a semantic narrowing of the word used towards dumb people in general, may have been influenced phonetically by words like чёрный (čórnyj, black) and -ка (-ka, little), referring to the immigrants' darker skin tones, or by черке́с (čerkés).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ɕurkə]
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Noun

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чу́рка (čúrkaf inan (genitive чу́рки, nominative plural чу́рки, genitive plural чу́рок)

  1. chock, block of wood, a small, severed part of a tree

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чу́рка (čúrkam anim or f anim (genitive чу́рки, nominative plural чу́рки, genitive plural чу́рок)

  1. (colloquial) dumb, uneducated person, dullard, booby
    Synonym: чурба́н (čurbán)
  2. (offensive, ethnic slur) immigrant from Central Asia or the Caucasus, wog
    Synonyms: чучмек (čučmek), чурба́н (čurbán)

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чурка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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