purke
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Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese porque.
Adverb[edit]
purke
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
purke f or m (definite singular purka or purken, indefinite plural purker, definite plural purkene)
- a sow (female pig)
Descendants[edit]
- → Greenlandic: puuluki
References[edit]
- “purke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse purka, from Latin porcus. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.
Noun[edit]
purke f (definite singular purka, indefinite plural purker, definite plural purkene)
Etymology 2[edit]
Onomatopoeic. Possibly influenced by purke f.
Verb[edit]
purke (present tense purkar, past tense purka, past participle purka, passive infinitive purkast, present participle purkande, imperative purke/purk)
- (intransitive, colloquial) to snore loudly
References[edit]
- “purke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Categories:
- Guinea-Bissau Creole terms derived from Portuguese
- Guinea-Bissau Creole lemmas
- Guinea-Bissau Creole adverbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- nb:Female animals
- nb:Pigs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk onomatopoeias
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk intransitive verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk colloquialisms
- nn:Female animals
- nn:Pigs