kruch

Polish

Etymology

From Old Polish kruch, from Proto-Slavic *kruxъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kruch m inan

1. (regional, rare, mining, historical) a unit of measurement of salt, equivalent of one cetnar (64,80kg until 1819; afterwards 40,55 kg until conversion to metric system); a hundredweight of salt.
2. (regional, rare, by extension) any piece of salt bigger than about 1kg; a salt stone.

Declension

Declension of kruch

	singular	plural
nominative	kruch	kruchy
genitive	kruchu	kruchów
dative	kruchowi	kruchom
accusative	kruch	kruchy
instrumental	kruchem	kruchami
locative	kruchu	kruchach
vocative	kruchu	kruchy

Synonyms

• (a unit of salt): cetnar, centnar, kwintal (anachronical)

Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kruch m (Cyrillic spelling круцх)

1. Obsolete spelling of kruh.