чука

Etymology
From, limited to South Slavic languages. Possibly of Paleo-Balkan origin (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) or native related to 🇨🇬,. In the later case, the word would be akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) rocky hillock, peak

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) rocky peak

Verb

 * 1)  to knock, strike, beat
 * 2)  to throb, beat (e.g. heart)

Etymology 1
. Compare 🇨🇬, dialectal Bulgarian and dialectal Serbian. According to some others, the word is borrowed from pre-Slavic substratum due to the fact that it's absent in western Slavdom, the substratum language being possibly Albanian.

Noun

 * 1)  hill or hillock on one side extremely steep, and the other milder sloped
 * 2)  hilltop

Noun

 * 1)  clock, watch
 * 2)  hour
 * 3)  heart, ticker