чук

See also: ћук

Bulgarian

hammer

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čukъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃu̟k]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation^(key): чук

Noun

чук • (čuk) m

1. hammer

   удари́ пиро́на с чу́ка

   udarí piróna s čúka

   hit the nail with the hammer

Declension

Declension of чук

	singular	plural
indefinite	чук čuk	чу́кове čúkove
definite (subject form)	чу́кът čúkǎt	чу́ковете čúkovete
definite (object form)	чу́ка čúka
count form	—	чу́ка čúka

References

• “чук”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “чук”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of чук

Chumel dialects
Narym	чук
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	тук, шук

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *čuk, Proto-Samoyedic *cuk. Can also be semantically influenced by Russian жук (žuk).

Cognate with Kamassian тхӱʼ (tʰüʔ).

Noun

чук (transliteration needed) (Narym)

1. insect, bug

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) “чук”, in Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 126