Modern citizens are increasingly moving away from the underworld, although they are happy to borrow various capacious terms. It looks unusual, it allows you to surprise your friends with a loud word. But what is a “urka”, many do not know, even if they love to flaunt a concept with friends. For some reason, they consider this an indispensable attribute of a significant person in society who is able to solve any problem.
What are the meanings?
Young children are happy to accept any information. And if you suddenly accidentally drop a bad word to correct the situation, they just have to say that “Urka” is such a funny purring animal. By analogy in the youth environment, they so rarely call their partner, replacing the usual “cats”, “kitties” and “kittens”. However, the truth is a little more unsightly, and the concept is deciphered as:
Thief, trades in large robberies.
A repeat offender, as well as a high-security prisoner.
A man of impertinent behavior, a prisoner.
As you can see, there is no escape from the criminal component. Would you like to call someone a felon? Better use other definitions. Nevertheless, it is very interesting how the word “urka” appeared and was fixed in that sense.
Where did the concept come from?
No one can give a definite answer. Although they offer various theories inextricably linked with the world beyond the law. The main version is considered to be "lesson convicts", from which they took the first two letters of each word and combined. These gentlemen went into temporary exile and worked at a logging site, and after serving their sentence they could return to normal life.
Unfortunately, it is known that such a “urka” often committed a second crime and returned to hard labor.
Linguists put forward their own options. One is from Turkic languages, the second is attributed to Odessa Jews:
“Urk” means a fierce person, and the root “ur” is included in the Kazakh “urlyk” and “ur”, respectively, “robbery” and “thief”;
- “Urem” is a “poor man” who could gradually become a little distorted and point to any person who was in custody.
When is it appropriate to use?
Today, at the household level, the word is swearing and serves to insult the interlocutor. Such a conversation will surely slide into mutual accusations.
Partly, gloomy associations can be diluted. What is urka? This word appeared in the game slang. Gamers with joy and consonance so name the representatives of the Orcish race and many of them proudly use a colorful self-name.
However, outside the gaming community and in the wild, people should better rid the lexicon of this jargon.