žurka

 žurkas on Latvian Wikipedia

• (dialectal forms) šurks, žorks, žurks

Borrowed from Polish szczurek (“little rat, mouse”), diminutive of szczur (“rat”), first mentioned in the 17th century, apparently still as a foreign word; in the 18th century, it had already acquired its present form (but compare dialectal variants žurks, žorks, šurks). ^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ʒùrka], IPA^(key): [ʒūrka]

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žurka m

1. (dialectal) genitive singular of žurks

žurka f (4th declension)

1. rat (esp. genus Rattus)

   žurku slazds ― a rat (= mouse) trap

   žurku inde ― rat poison

   žurku zāles ― rat medicine (= poison)

   slapjš kā (ūdens) žurka ― as wet as a (water) rat

   pliks kā baznīcas žurka ― as naked as a church rat (= very poor)

• žurkulēns

• pele f

žurka f (Cyrillic spelling журка)

1. party

The more common locative/dative form of žurka in the colloquial language is žurci, while žurki is the normative form.