Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babrati.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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babrať impf

  1. (colloquial, transitive) to dirty, to soil
    Synonym: špiniť
  2. (colloquial, transitive) to touch
    Synonym: chytať
  3. (reflexive) to dabble (to rummage in dirty in a sticky liquid) [with v čom (+ locative) ‘in what’]
  4. (reflexive) to dawdle (to do some job for a long time and often incorrectly) [with v čom (+ locative) or s čím (+ instrumental) ‘with what’]
    Synonyms: paprať sa, piplať sa, prplať sa, šušmať sa

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “babrať”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 57

Further reading

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  • babrať”, 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, 2003–2024