Czech–English dictionary

kuličky

(countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]

kulinářský

Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

kulisy

Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

kulminace

(astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.

kulminovat

To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

kůlna

A small wooden shed.

kůlová ohrada

(military) An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.

kulová plocha

(logic, dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.

kulovitý

Spherical, ball-shaped.

kult

(religion) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.

kultivátor

A machine that mechanically tills the soil.

kultivovaný

Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.

kultivovat

(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

kultovní

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

kulturní

(comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.

kumpán

(informal, originally, Cambridge University) A close friend.

kumulativní

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

kůň

(chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

kuna

The former (until 2023) currency of Croatia, divided into 100 lipa.

kunda

(vulgar, slang) Vulva

kupa

(astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.

kupé

A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

kupec

A person who makes one or more purchases.

kupit

(transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.

kupka

Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.

kupka sena

A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.

kuplíř

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

kuplířství

The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes.

kupole

(architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.

kupón

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.

kupovat

(transitive, archaic) To suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).

kupující

A person who makes one or more purchases.

kůr

(architecture) Uncommon form of quire (“one quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse”).

kůra

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

kuřačka

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

kuřák

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

kurátor

A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

kuráž

The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

kurážný

Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.

kurděje

(uncountable, disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes; (countable, obsolete) an occurrence of this disease.

Kurdistán

A cultural region in West Asia inhabited mostly by the Kurds, encompassing parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

kurdský

Of, from, or pertaining to Kurdistan, the Kurdish people or the Kurdish language family.

kurdština

Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).

kuře

A young bird.

kurfiřt

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

kuří oko

A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

kurie

(historical) Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice

kuriozita

A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

kuriózní

(now, _, dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual. [from 14th c.]

kůrka

The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.

kurník

A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

kuropění

The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

kurs

the ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations

Kursk

A city in Kursk Oblast, the administrative centre of Kursky Raion and Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.

kurt

The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.

kurtizána

A female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.

kurva

(slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

kurýr

A person who delivers messages.

kus

A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.

kusadlo

One of the anterior pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding and cutting food.

kuše

A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.

kuskus

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

kustodie

The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.

kutálet

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

kutálet se

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

kutna

A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.

kutr

(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.

kůže

(countable) The skin of an animal.

kuželka

A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.

kvadrát

(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.

kvadruplegik

One who suffers from quadriplegia.

kvak

(onomatopoeia) The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.

kvákání

The call of a frog or toad.

kvákat

(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound.

kvaker

A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

kvalifikovaný

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient

kvalifikovat

To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

kvalita

(occasionally, proscribed) (attributive) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

kvalitní

(occasionally, proscribed) (attributive) Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

kvantifikace

The act of quantifying.

kvantifikátor

(logic) An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.

kvantifikovat

(logic) To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ∀) or there exists (denoted ∃).

kvantita

A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.

kvantitativní

Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.

kvardián

A superior in a Franciscan monastery.

kvark

(particle) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.

kvart

A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

kvarta

(music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).

kvartál

(now, historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night. [from 14th c.]

kvartér

(geology) The geological period of the Cenozoic Era immediately following the Tertiary. It is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.

kvartet

(musician) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.

kvarteto

(musician) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.

kvartil

(statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.

kvas

A state of agitation or of turbulent change.

kvasar

(galaxy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

kvašení

(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide

kvasinka

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

kvasit

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

kvasnice

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

kvaternion

(mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.

kvazar

(galaxy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

kvé

The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

kvedlat

(transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.

kvést

(intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.

květ

A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.

květen

The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.

květena

Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

květenství

(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

květina

(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

květinář

A person who sells flowers.

květinový

Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

květnatý

Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.

kvetoucí

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

kvičet

(intransitive, slang) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.

Kvido

A en given name.

kvílet

To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

kvinta

(music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)

kvintakord

(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.

kvinteto

(music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together

kvitance

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

kvìten

The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.

ký

(as a noun) One from, belonging to, relating to, or like.

kyanid

(inorganic compound, organic compound, countable) Any compound containing the -C≡N group or the CN− anion.

kyber-

(Internet) Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.

kybernetický

Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in living organisms or machines.

kyberprostor

A world of information accessed through the Internet.

kyberútok

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.

kýbl

The amount held in this container.

kyborg

(scifi) A being which is part machine and part organic.

kýč

An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.

kyčel

(slang, possibly, dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.

kýchat

(intransitive, medical sign) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

kýchnout

(intransitive, medical sign) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

kýchnutí

An act of sneezing.

kýčovitý

(informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.

kydat

To shovel muck.

kyj

(countable) A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

kyklop

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.

kýl

(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.

kýla

(diseases) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

kylix

An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body.

kýlní pás

A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.

kymácet

(intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

kymácet se

(intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.

kymerština

(uncountable) The Welsh language. [from 10th c.]

kymričtina

(uncountable) The Welsh language. [from 10th c.]

Kymry

One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

kypět

(intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.

Kypr

An island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia. Official name: Republic of Cyprus. Capital: Nicosia.

kyprá

(of a woman) Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.