kalkować
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of French calquer + -ować, from Italian calcare, from Latin calcō, from calx (“heel”). Doublet of kalikować (“to pump air to the pipe organ”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]kalkować impf
- (transitive) to calk, to trace over (to copy a drawing by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held)
- Hypernym: kopiować
- (transitive) to copy, to imitate
- Hypernym: powielać
- (transitive, linguistics) to calque (to adopt a word or phrase from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts)
- Hypernym: zapożyczać
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔvat͡ɕ
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