dajka

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian дойка (dojka, “nurse, wet-nurse”), Serbo-Croatian dojka (“breast”), Slovak dojka (“wet-nurse, nurse cow”), from Proto-Slavic *dojiti (“to suckle, to milk”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɒjkɒ]

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• Hyphenation: daj‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

dajka (plural dajkák)

1. (dated) Synonym of szoptatós dajka (“wet nurse”, a woman hired to suckle another woman’s child)
2. nurse, nanny, fostress (a woman who takes care of other people’s young, especially in a day nursery)

   Synonyms: dada, dadus, pesztra, pesztonka

• dajka in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dajka in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).