Home & things

drinking glass

Source:*stьkloProto-Slavic · “glass; borrowed from Gothic stikls 'goblet'”certain

Ukrainian, Polish and Czech name the drinking glass after its material; Russian uses a Turkic word for a bowl.

I knowI'm learning

English

drinking glass

Polish

szklanka

ˈʂklanka

Learn freshDifferent words — learn this one fresh.

In all five languages

BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
стака́нstakan
stɐˈkandifferent word · Turkic tostakan 'wooden bowl'
The material is стекло́, from *stьklo.
Ukrainian
скля́нкаskljanka
ˈsklʲankainherited
Also стака́н.
Polish
szklanka
ˈʂklankainherited
Czech
sklenice
ˈsklɛɲɪtsɛinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
čašaчаша
ˈtʃaʃadifferent word · Proto-Slavic *čaša 'cup, bowl' (Russian ча́шка 'cup')
English
drinking glass