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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish altambas. Compare Turkish altın (“gold”) and Turkish bez (“cloth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈtɛm.bas/
- Rhymes: -ɛmbas
- Syllabification: al‧tem‧bas
Noun
altembas m inan (related adjective altembasowy)
- (chiefly in the singular) kincob (silk fabric interspersed with gold threads)
- Synonym: złotogłów
- z altembasu ― (made) of kincob
Declension
Further reading
- altembas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “altembas”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (24.08.2022) “ALTEMBAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “altembas”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “altembas”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “altembas”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 27
- altembas in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego