# volapük
## Finnish
### Etymology

From Volapük Volapük.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋolɑpyk/, [ˈʋo̞lɑ̝pyk]
* Rhymes: -olɑpyk

### Noun

volapük
* Volapük (language)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of volapük (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
volapükini
accusative
nom.
volapükini
gen.
volapükini
genitive
volapükini
partitive
volapükiäni
inessive
volapükissäni
elative
volapükistäni
illative
volapükiini
adessive
volapükilläni
ablative
volapükiltäni
allative
volapükilleni
essive
volapükinäni
translative
volapükikseni
abessive
volapükittäni
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
volapükisi
accusative
nom.
volapükisi
gen.
volapükisi
genitive
volapükisi
partitive
volapükiäsi
inessive
volapükissäsi
elative
volapükistäsi
illative
volapükiisi
adessive
volapükilläsi
ablative
volapükiltäsi
allative
volapükillesi
essive
volapükinäsi
translative
volapükiksesi
abessive
volapükittäsi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
volapükimme
accusative
nom.
volapükimme
gen.
volapükimme
genitive
volapükimme
partitive
volapükiämme
inessive
volapükissämme
elative
volapükistämme
illative
volapükiimme
adessive
volapükillämme
ablative
volapükiltämme
allative
volapükillemme
essive
volapükinämme
translative
volapükiksemme
abessive
volapükittämme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
volapükinne
accusative
nom.
volapükinne
gen.
volapükinne
genitive
volapükinne
partitive
volapükiänne
inessive
volapükissänne
elative
volapükistänne
illative
volapükiinne
adessive
volapükillänne
ablative
volapükiltänne
allative
volapükillenne
essive
volapükinänne
translative
volapükiksenne
abessive
volapükittänne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
volapükinsä
accusative
nom.
volapükinsä
gen.
volapükinsä
genitive
volapükinsä
partitive
volapükiään volapükiänsä
inessive
volapükissään volapükissänsä
elative
volapükistään volapükistänsä
illative
volapükiinsä
adessive
volapükillään volapükillänsä
ablative
volapükiltään volapükiltänsä
allative
volapükilleen volapükillensä
essive
volapükinään volapükinänsä
translative
volapükikseen volapükiksensä
abessive
volapükittään volapükittänsä
instructive
comitative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔ.la.pyk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

volapük m (usually uncountable, plural volapüks)
* Volapük (language)
* (derogatory) incomprehensible language.
** 1927, Marcel Proust, edited by Gallimard, Le temps retrouvé‎:— Elle ne disait pas très bien les vers ? hasarda l’ami de Bloch pour flatter Rachel, qui répondit : — Oh ! ça, elle n’a jamais su en dire un ; c’était de la prose, du chinois, du volapük, tout, excepté un vers. D’ailleurs, je vous dirai que, bien entendu, je ne l’ai entendue que très peu, sur sa fin, ajouta-t-elle pour se rajeunir, mais on m’a dit qu’autrefois ce n’était pas mieux, au contraire.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “volapük”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Noun

volapük m (invariable)
* Volapük (language)

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* wolapik

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Volapük Volapük.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔ.laˈpik/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ik
* Syllabification: vo‧la‧pük

### Noun

volapük m inan
* Volapük (artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer)
* (figurative) gibberish, gobbledygook, double Dutch (incomprehensible and confusing language or style)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* volapük in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* volapük in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Noun

volapük m (uncountable)
* Alternative form of volapuque

## Volapük
### Etymology

From vola (“of the world / world's”) + pük (“language”). More at Volapük.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [volaˈpyk]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

volapük (nominative plural volapüks)
* universal language
* (most literal) world language; global language
    Linglänapük e Fransänapük binons volapüks.English and French are world languages.
* (sometimes lowercase) Volapük

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only