# Raków
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɹækuːf/

### Proper noun

Raków
* A settlement founded in the Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland in 1569 as the centre of the Polish Brethren, the site of the Racovian Academy 1602–1638 and of the publication of the Racovian Catechism in 1605; formerly a town until 1869, it is now a village of the Republic of Poland and the seat of the gmina wiejska (rural commune) of the same name.
* (fully “Gmina Raków”) A gmina wiejska (rural commune) in Kielce County in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland, with its seat in the village of the same name.

#### Related terms

* Racovian

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Raków (Polish town 1569–1869, village 1869–present) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Gmina Raków on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Karow, awork, rowka

## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Raków.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Proper noun

Raków ?
* Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

### Further reading

* Raków (powiat Kielecki) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁa.kɔv/

### Proper noun

Raków ?
* Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

### Further reading

* Raków (powiat de Kielce) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʁakʊf/

### Proper noun

Raków n (proper noun, genitive Rakóws or (optionally with an article) Raków)
* Raków (village and former town in Poland, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC)
    Synonym: Rakau

#### Declension

$^1$Optionally with an article.

### Further reading

* Raków (Powiat Kielecki) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$

## Polish
### Etymology

In most cases rak (“crayfish”) +‎ -ów. The name of the most notable village and its namesake commune (sense #2), in Kielce County, comes from Warnia, a Polish coat of arms depicting a crayfish, adopted by the founder of the town Jan Sienieński from his wife Jadwiga Gnoińska. (See the Wikipedia article Polish heraldry for further explanation.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrakuf/
* Rhymes: -akuf
* Syllabification: Ra‧ków
* Homophone: raków

### Proper noun

Raków m inan
* one of several villages in Poland
* a Polish commune (gmina) near Kielce
* a district (dzielnica) of Częstochowa
* a neighbourhood (osiedle) of Warsaw, in the district of Włochy
* Polish name of Ракаў (Rakaŭ), an agro-town in Belarus

#### Descendants

* Dutch: Raków
* English: Raków
* French: Raków
* German: Raków
* Latin: Racōvia
* Spanish: Raków

### Further reading

* Raków in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Raków.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raˈkob/ [raˈkoβ̞]
* Rhymes: -ob

### Proper noun

Raków ?
* Raków (Polish town 1569–1869 and village 1869–present, important centre of Socinianism in the 16th–17th CC.)

### Further reading

* Raków on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$