cebula

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German zibolle, zebülle, zwibole, from Late Latin cēpulla. First attested in 1419.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡sɛbulʲa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡sɛbulʲa/

Noun

cebula f

  1. (attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) onion (Allium cepa)
    • 1920 , Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume III, number 1374, Zakroczym:
      Iakom ya ne porwala Ondrzeyowi czibuli z gego ogroda
    • 1895 , Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 4:
      Dzeszanczina s pełna ma dana bicz wyiąwszi rze­pą, mak, kapustą, cybulyą
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 1927:
      Czibula cepe
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 5966:
      Cybula cepe
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 5967:
      Czibula cepe
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 4772:
      Czebula cepe
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 3915:
      Czebula ffanula
    • 1907 , Jakub Parkoszowic, edited by Jan Łoś, Traktat o ortografii polskiej, Żurawica, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Krakow, page 407:
      In molliter autem asperatis scribatur simplex c sine omni asperacione, ut: cap, cebula, cisz
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 539:
      Czebula cepa
    • 1900 , Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 7105:
      Czebula cepe
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 26r:
      Cepe ein zwyfel, cepa idem est czebula

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Descendants

References

Polish

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cebule sense 1
cebule sense 2

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish cebula.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: ce‧bu‧la
  • Homophone: Cebula

Noun

cebula f (diminutive cebulka, related adjective cebulowy)

  1. onion (Allium cepa)
  2. onion (bulb of this vegetable)
  3. (botany) bulb (bulb-shaped root)
    cebula tulipanatulip bulb
  4. (architecture) onion-shaped dome of a building
    Hypernym: kopuła
  5. (colloquial) turnip (old-fashioned pocket watch)
  6. (Southern Borderlands, Kamianets-Podilskyi, derogatory, Drohobych) synonym of oko

Declension

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Descendants

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish cebula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɛˈbu.la/
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: ce‧bu‧la

Noun

cebula f (diminutive cebulka, related adjective cebulowy)

  1. onion (Allium cepa)
    Synonym: cwibel

Declension

Declension of cebula
singular plural
nominative cebula cebule
genitive cebule cebul/cebulōw
dative cebuli cebulōm
accusative cebulã cebule
instrumental cebulōm cebulami/cebulōma
locative cebuli cebulach
vocative cebulo cebule

Derived terms

Further reading

  • cebula in dykcjonorz.eu
  • cebula in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “cebula”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 67
  • Eugeniusz Kosmała (2023) “cebula”, in Dykcjōnôrz Polsko-Ślonskiy (in Silesian), section C, page 8