kvargl

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Quargel, with the Central German development tw- → qu- (see quer) from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ. Compare Czech tvarůžek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʋǎrɡl/

Noun

kvàrgl m (Cyrillic spelling ква̀ргл)

1. quark, Olomouc cheese
   • 1923, Miroslav Krleža, Messrs. Glembay:

     Svi mi vrvimo u životu kao crvi u kvarglu.

     We all swarm about in life like worms in cheese.

2. (sports, regional, obsolete) a kick given to a ball (typically a soccer ball) in order to make it curve during its trajectory

Declension

Declension of kvargl

	singular	plural
nominative	kvargl	kvarglovi
genitive	kvargla	kvarglova
dative	kvarglu	kvarglovima
accusative	kvargl	kvarglove
vocative	kvarglu	kvarglovi
locative	kvarglu	kvarglovima
instrumental	kvarglom	kvarglovima

Further reading

• “kvargl”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025