parchant

Czech

Etymology

A change from the original panchart, which comes from the derisive Middle High German banchart, bankhart meaning left-sided, literally something like "a child born on a bench". Compare e.g. bastard, Gerhard, Reinhard, also e.g. the German Bank and the French suffix -ard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈparxant]
• Hyphenation: par‧chant

Noun

parchant m anim

1. bastard (person born to unmarried parents)

   Synonym: levoboček

2. bastard (objectionable person)

   Synonym: darebák

Declension

Declension of parchant (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	parchant	parchanti
genitive	parchanta	parchantů
dative	parchantovi, parchantu	parchantům
accusative	parchanta	parchanty
vocative	parchante	parchanti
locative	parchantovi, parchantu	parchantech
instrumental	parchantem	parchanty

Noun

parchant m inan

1. (printing slang) misprint

Declension

Declension of parchant (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	parchant	parchanty
genitive	parchanta, parchantu	parchantů
dative	parchantu	parchantům
accusative	parchant	parchanty
vocative	parchante	parchanty
locative	parchantu	parchantech
instrumental	parchantem	parchanty

Further reading

• “parchant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “parchant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “parchant”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)