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кале́ка • ‎(kaléka) m anim, f anim ‎(genitive кале́ки, nominative plural кале́ки, genitive plural кале́к)

cripple (person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities; has some negative connotation)

Declension of кале́ка (anim fem-form velar-stem accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	кале́ка kaléka	кале́ки kaléki
genitive	кале́ки kaléki	кале́к kalék
dative	кале́ке kaléke	кале́кам kalékam
accusative	кале́ку kaléku	кале́к kalék
instrumental	кале́кой, кале́кою kalékoj, kalékoju	кале́ками kalékami
prepositional	кале́ке kaléke	кале́ках kalékax

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Matzenauer, Antonín (1870), “калика”, in Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 39
Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1985), “каліка”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume II, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, page 352ab
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