kilka

See also: kilkä

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkil.ka/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkil.ka/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ilka
  • Syllabification: kil‧ka

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Determiner

kilka

  1. more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [+genitive]
    Synonyms: kilkoro, parę
Declension
Declension of kilka
plural
virile other
nominative kilku kilka
genitive kilku
dative
accusative kilku kilka
instrumental kilkoma
locative kilku
vocative kilku kilka
Alternative forms
Derived terms
numerals
prefixes

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kilka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 84 times in news, 73 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 400 times, making it the 120th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian ки́лька (kílʹka).

Noun

kilka f

  1. any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
Declension
Declension of kilka
singular plural
nominative kilka kilki
genitive kilki kilek
dative kilce kilkom
accusative kilkę kilki
instrumental kilką kilkami
locative kilce kilkach
vocative kilko kilki

Further reading
  • kilka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kilka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kilka, kilko, kielko, kielka, kolko, koliko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kilka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 334
  • kilka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romani
kilka

Noun

kilka f (plural kilki)

  1. bun (hairstyle)

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kilko.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkilka/
  • Rhymes: -ilka
  • Syllabification: kil‧ka

Numeral

kilka

  1. more than two but less than ten (a quantity from three to nine); several; few [+genitive]
    Synonym: pŏrã

Further reading
  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “kilka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 177
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