Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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laska (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative laskaði, supine laskað)

  1. to damage slightly [with accusative]
    Synonyms: skemma, skaða, skadda
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Etymology 2

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Inflected form of laski (panel of a cap; section of an orange; cuff of a sock or mitten).

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laska

  1. inflection of laski:
    1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
    2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aska
  • Syllabification: las‧ka
  • Homophone: Laska

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish laska.

Noun

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laska f (diminutive laseczka, augmentative lacha or laga)

  1. cane, stick, walking stick
  2. rod, stick (of cinnamon, vanilla, dynamite etc.)
  3. (colloquial) blowjob
    Synonyms: gała, lodzik, lód
  4. (colloquial) failing grade, F
    Synonyms: gała, jedynka, pała
  5. (Near Masovian, milling) wooden hornbeam cylinder in coils used to transfer motion from a mill wheel to the stones

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Etymology 2

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Perhaps borrowed from Czech láska. If so, then a doublet of łaska.

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laska f (diminutive laseczka, augmentative lachon)

  1. (colloquial) attractive woman; babe
    Synonyms: dupa, dupeczka, dżaga, foczka, kociak, niunia
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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laska

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of laski

Further reading

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  • laska in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • laska in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “laski”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 365
  • Aleksander Saloni (1908) “laska”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 336
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