łamany

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Polish

Etymology

From łamać +‎ -any. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from English broken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waˈma.nɘ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anɘ
  • Syllabification: ła‧ma‧ny

Participle

łamany (passive adjectival)

  1. passive adjectival participle of łamać

Adjective

łamany (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (of a language, etc.) broken (spoken in a non-standard way, indicating a non-native speaker)
  2. (of a chain) polygonal (consisting of connected series of line segments)
    linia łamanapolygonal chain
  3. (with przez) slash; used to denote the usage of the / symbol
    • 1961, Stanisław Lem, Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie:
      Zamówionko proszę łaskawie do tej oto skrzy-neczki-szkatułki i dzwonek proszę usilnie pociągnąć – zjawię się, odszukam w mig, stare oczy, hę hę, za pozwoleniem, nie gorsze od młodych, przyniosę i, jeśli na miejscu, uprzejmie proszę, a jeśli poza obręb, to łaskawie tylko cyferkę swoją zechce pan na karcie, w rubryce "czwórka rzymska łamane przez Be" umieścić – i to już wszystko...
      The order, if you would be so kind, goes in that chest-er-coffer and you need to ring the bell intensely – I'll turn up, find it in a jiffy, old eyes, hum, not worse than young eyes, if I do say so myself, I'll bring it here and, if you want to read it on the spot, no problem, and if outside, then please only put your serial number here, under the column IV-slash-B – and that's all...

Declension

Derived terms

adjective

Further reading

  • łamany in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • łamany in Polish dictionaries at PWN