# lelek
## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lelьkъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛlɛk]
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### Noun

lelek m anim
* nightjar

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “lelek”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “lelek”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “lelek”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

lel (“to find”) +‎ -ek (personal suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛlɛk]
* Hyphenation: le‧lek

### Verb

lelek
* first-person singular indicative present indefinite of lel

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.lɛk/
* (Greater Poland):
** (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA: /ˈlɛ.lɛk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlɛk
* Syllabification: le‧lek

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lelьkъ.

#### Noun

lelek m animal
* nightjar; any bird from the subfamily Caprimulginae
* Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic imitating children's speech + -ek.

#### Noun

lelek m pers
* (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) pampered person
    Alternative form: lalek

##### Derived terms

* lelkać impf

### Further reading

* lelek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lelek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “lelek”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 305

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Of imitative origin, possibly descending from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl, bark, lament”). See also German lullen, Ancient Greek λάλος (lálos), Albanian lule.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lêleːk/
* Hyphenation: le‧lek

### Noun

lȅlēk m (Cyrillic spelling ле̏ле̄к)
* wailing, weeping

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “650-51”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 650-51

### Further reading

* “lelek”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lelьkъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʎeʎek]
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### Noun

lelek m animal (related adjective lelčí)
* nightjar; any bird from the subfamily Caprimulginae

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “lelek”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 322

### Further reading

* “lelek”, 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