wilk

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪlk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlk

wilk (plural wilks)

1. (zoology) Obsolete form of whelk.

• “wilk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• (archaic) wełk, wôłk

Borrowed from Polish wilk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvilk/
• Hyphenation: wilk

wilk m animal

1. wolf (Canis lupus)

• “wilk”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wilk”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьlkъ. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Latin lupus. For the sense “meatgrinder,” compare German Fleischwolf.

• IPA^(key): /vilk/

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• Rhymes: -ilk
• Syllabification: wilk
• Homophones: wilg, Wilk

wilk m animal (female equivalent wilczyca, diminutive wilczek, augmentative wilczysko, related adjective wilczy)

1. wolf
2. (colloquial) male wolf, he-wolf

   Synonym: basior

3. (colloquial) German Shepherd

   Synonyms: owczarek niemiecki, wilczur

4. (colloquial) wolfskin

   Synonym: wilczura

wilk m inan

1. meatgrinder
2. (pathology, colloquial) lupus

   Synonym: toczeń

3. (botany) water sprout, water shoot

• wilk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wilk in Polish dictionaries at PWN