karaczan

Polish

Alternative forms

karakan, karakon

Etymology

Alteration of tarakan, tarakon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈra.t͡ʂan/
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Rhymes: -at͡ʂan
Syllabification: ka‧ra‧czan

Noun

karaczan m animal

(archaic) cockroach, roach (insect)
Synonyms: francuz, karakan, karaluch, prusak
any member of the Blattodea, an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites
Synonym: hełmiec

Declension

Declension of karaczan

	singular	plural
nominative	karaczan	karaczany
genitive	karaczana	karaczanów
dative	karaczanowi	karaczanom
accusative	karaczana	karaczany
instrumental	karaczanem	karaczanami
locative	karaczanie	karaczanach
vocative	karaczanie	karaczany

Further reading

karaczan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
karaczan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
karaczan in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “karaczan”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

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