choroba

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See also: chorobą

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvoroba. By surface analysis, chorý +‎ -oba.

Pronunciation

Noun

choroba f

  1. disease; sickness, illness (abnormal health condition)
    Synonym: nemoc

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Further reading

  • choroba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • choroba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • choroba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvoroba. By surface analysis, chory +‎ -oba. First attested in 1454.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

choroba f

  1. disease; sickness, illness (negative abnormal health condition)
    Synonym: chorość
    • 1451-1455, Legenda o świętym Aleksym, line 218:
      Ktoryle chorobą myal, nathemyescz szdrow ostal
      [Ktoryle chorobę miał, natemieści zdrow ostał]
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Descendants

  • Polish: choroba
    • Old Ruthenian: хоро́ба (xoróba) (dialectal)
  • Silesian: choroba

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “choroba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “choroba”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “choroba”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “choroba”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “choroba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvoroba. By surface analysis, chorý +‎ -oba. First attested in 1645.

Noun

choroba f

  1. disease; sickness, illness (negative abnormal health condition)

Descendants

References

  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “choroba”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish choroba. By surface analysis, chory +‎ -oba.

Pronunciation

 
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔba
  • Syllabification: cho‧ro‧ba
  • Homophone: Choroba

Noun

choroba f (diminutive choróbka, augmentative choróbsko, related adjective chorobowy)

  1. (pathology) disease; sickness, illness (negative abnormal health condition)
    Synonyms: dolegliwość, franca, niedomaganie, przypadłość, rozstrój, schorzenie, syndrom, zespół
    Coordinate term: zdrowie
  2. (figurative, pathology) disease (abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.)
    Synonym: patologia
  3. (figurative) disease; menace (someone seen as detrimental or negative)
    Synonyms: cholera, franca, szczeżuja

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), choroba (noun) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 64 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 16 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 108 times, making it the 579th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Interjection

choroba

  1. (euphemistic, minced oath) dangit!
    Synonym: schorzenie

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “choroba (noun)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 48

Further reading

  • choroba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • choroba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “choroba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • CHOROBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 22.02.2019
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “choroba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “choroba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “choroba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 293

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish choroba. By surface analysis, chory +‎ -oba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɔˈrɔ.ba/
  • Rhymes: -ɔba
  • Syllabification: cho‧ro‧ba

Noun

choroba f

  1. (medicine) disease; sickness, illness (negative abnormal health condition)
    Synonyms: niymoc, stynczka
    Coordinate term: zdrowie

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Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak choroba, from Proto-Slavic *xvoroba. By surface analysis, chorý +‎ -oba.

Pronunciation

Noun

choroba f (related adjective chorobný, diminutive chorôbka or chorobička, augmentative chorobisko)

  1. disease; sickness, illness (negative abnormal health condition)
    Synonym: (dated) nemoc

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • choroba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024