English

Proper noun

Raków

1. 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.
2. (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

Dutch

Etymology

From the Polish Raków.

Proper noun

Raków ?

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

French

Etymology

From the Polish Raków.

Proper noun

Raków

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

German

Etymology

From the Polish Raków.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁakʊf/

Proper noun

Raków ? ‎(genitive Raków)

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

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

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^(key): /ˈra.kuf/

Proper noun

Raków m inan

1. one of several villages in Poland
2. a Polish commune (gmina) near Kielce
3. a district (dzielnica) of Częstochowa
4. a neighbourhood (osiedle) of Warsaw, in the district of Włochy
5. Polish name of Ракаў ‎(Rakaŭ), an agro-town in Belarus

Declension

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

From the Polish Raków.

Proper noun

Raków ?

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

Polish

Noun

raków

1. genitive plural of rak