ръка
Bulgarian
/rəˈka/
noun
Definitions
- hand
- forearm
- arm
- standing, rank (position or reputation in society or a profession)
- (in the plural) hands (personal possession, ownership, hence, control, direction, management)
- harvest
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rǫka (hand) inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ránkāˀ.
Origin
Proto-Balto-Slavic
*ránkāˀ
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- рука Russian
- *wrenk- Proto-Indo-European
- ręka Polish
- *rǫka Proto-Slavic
- ruka Czech
- ruka Serbo-Croatian
- рука Serbo-Croatian
- râncaci Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- roka Latvian
- рака Macedonian
- рука Ukrainian
- ruka Slovak
- рука Belarusian
- roka Slovene
- рѫка Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- ranka Lithuanian
- ruka Lower Sorbian
- *ránkāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- ruka Upper Sorbian
- ręka Old Polish
- rãka Kashubian
- ronka Samogitian