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Reviewing applications can be fun and only takes a few minutes. Grading comment Graded automatically based on peer agreement. Discussion entries: 0. Automatic update in Peer comments on this answer and responses from the answerer. I don't know about Polish, but it is Hungarian. Return to KudoZ list. You have native languages that can be verified You can request verification for native languages by completing a simple application that takes only a couple of minutes.
View applications. Close and don't show again Close. Close search. Term search Jobs Translators Clients Forums. Term search All of ProZ. Russian term or phrase: korva. English translation: whore. It means whore. Ukrainians and Russians would understand the word as well although the word doesn't exist in both languages. Selected response from: Marcus Malabad Canada Local time: Marcus Malabad. Olga Simon. Marcin Wierzbicki. Peer comments on this answer and responses from the answerer agree.
Vladimir Dubisskiy : extensive explanation. Must add,in Ukrainian - very often used. Ludwig Chekhovtsov : In Russian also. GaryG : It's a Hebrew word! Ira Parsons. Alexandra Tussing. Dana Cohen : And it came to Yiddish via slav languages, and to Hebrew either via Yiddish or more likely directly through slav languages.
