fujara

See also: fujarą

English

Noun

fujara (plural fujaras)

1. a flute-like woodwind musical instrument from Slovakia.

Czech

A fujara from Slovakia

Etymology

Derived from Romanian fluieră, further tracable to Latin. Cognate with Greek φλογέρα (flogéra), Albanian flojere, Aromanian fluiarã.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfujara]

Noun

fujara f

1. (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument

Declension

Declension of fujara (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	fujara	fujary
genitive	fujary	fujar
dative	fujaře	fujarám
accusative	fujaru	fujary
vocative	fujaro	fujary
locative	fujaře	fujarách
instrumental	fujarou	fujarami

See also

• fujara on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

Polish

fujary

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech fujara, from Romanian fluier.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /fuˈja.ra/

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /fuˈja.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: fu‧ja‧ra

Noun

fujara m animal or f

1. (colloquial, derogatory or dialectal, Far Masovian) butterfingers (person who is ungraceful or sluggish)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara

   • 2007 February 10, Arkadiusz Adamkowski, “Kampania wyborcza. Zawodowcy i amatorzy”, in gazeta.pl‎^[1], Agora SA:

     Fujara, kto nie potrafi wykorzystać samobója, jakiego swojej płockiej PiS-owskiej drużynie strzelił premier Kaczyński [...]

     A butterfingers who can't take advantage of the suicide goal that the prime minister Kaczyński shot for the Płock PiS team [...]

Declension

Masculine declension:

Declension of fujara

	singular	plural
nominative	fujara	fujary
genitive	fujary	fujarów
dative	fujarze	fujarom
accusative	fujarę	fujary
instrumental	fujarą	fujarami
locative	fujarze	fujarach
vocative	fujaro	fujary

Feminine declension:

Declension of fujara

	singular	plural
nominative	fujara	fujary
genitive	fujary	fujar
dative	fujarze	fujarom
accusative	fujarę	fujary
instrumental	fujarą	fujarami
locative	fujarze	fujarach
vocative	fujaro	fujary

Noun

fujara f (diminutive fujarka)

1. small, simple folk instrument, usually made of fresh willow bark, typically a kind of short folk pipe

   Synonyms: fletnia, fujarka, piszczałka

   • 1888, Julian Kołaczkowski, Wiadomości tyczące się przemysłu i sztuki w dawnej Polsce, page 218:

     [...] różniącym się od dzisiejszej fujarki, zatem może najdawniejszym instrumentem na świecie... Fujara, rodzaj piszczałki pasterskiej, gąśle, gędźba, gęśle podgórskie, jedno z najdawniejszych słowiańskich instrumentów [...]

     [...] different from the modern fujarka, might be the oldest instrument in the world... The fujara, a type of pastoral pipe, or gusles, one of the strangest Slavic instruments [...]

2. (slang, vulgar) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie

   • 1901, Jan Karłowic, Słownik gwar polskich‎^[2], volume 2:

     Pochować go [...] trzeba Plecami do ziemi, fujarą do nieba.

     We've got to bury him [...], back to the ground, penis to the sky.

Declension

Declension of fujara

	singular	plural
nominative	fujara	fujary
genitive	fujary	fujar
dative	fujarze	fujarom
accusative	fujarę	fujary
instrumental	fujarą	fujarami
locative	fujarze	fujarach
vocative	fujaro	fujary

Further reading

• fujara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fujara in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fujara”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108

Slovak

Fujara

Etymology

Derived from Romanian fluier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfujara]

Noun

fujara f (relational adjective fujarový, diminutive fujarka or fujarôčka)

1. (music) a flute-like woodwind musical instrument

Declension

Declension of fujara (pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	fujara	fujary
genitive	fujary	fujár
dative	fujare	fujarám
accusative	fujaru	fujary
locative	fujare	fujarách
instrumental	fujarou	fujarami

Derived terms

• fujaráš
• fujarista

See also

• fujara on the Slovak Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sk

Further reading

• “fujara”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025