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Kashubian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *časъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃas/
- Syllabification: czas
Noun
czas m inan (diminutive czask)
- time
Further reading
- Stefan Ramułt (1893) “čas”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 20
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “czas”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi, page 218
- “czas”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *časъ. First attested in the 14th century. Displaced wrzemię.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲa(ː)s/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲas/, /t͡ʃʲɒs/
Noun
czas m inan
- time (passage of moments into the future)
- moment in time
- period; length of time
- time (particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something)
- deadline
- time of day; hour
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish czas.
Pronunciation
Noun
czas m inan
- time (particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something)
- Synonym: pora
- time (way to measure the current hour)
- czas Greenwich ― Greenwich time
- time (period between two events)
- (sports) time (result in a timed event)
- time; period (length of time)
- w połowie czasu ― half-way through
- (linguistics) tense
- (Middle Polish) deadline
- (Middle Polish) years
- (Middle Polish) season
- Synonym: pora roku
- (Middle Polish) day (full 24 hours)
- Synonym: doba
- (Middle Polish) hour
- Synonym: godzina
- (Middle Polish, fortune telling) augural sign
Declension
The instrumental form czasy is obsolete and survives only in set phrases (ostatnimi czasy).
Derived terms
Verb
czas impf (defective)
- (intransitive) it is time or or or
- Synonym: pora
Conjugation
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czas is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 191 times in scientific texts, 161 times in news, 128 times in essays, 199 times in fiction, and 169 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 848 times, making it the 51st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czas”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 59
Further reading
- czas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- czas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “czas”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “CZAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 30.11.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “czas”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “czas”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “czas”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 375
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “czas”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
Silesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish czas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂas/
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: czas
Noun
czas m inan
- time
- moment in time
- Synonyms: chwila, mōmynt, pora
- period; length of time
- (grammar) tense
- (meteorology) weather
- Synonym: pogoda
- (physiology) period
- Synonym: mynstruacyjŏ
Further reading
- czas in dykcjonorz.eu
- czas in silling.org
Slovincian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *časъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃas/
- Syllabification: czas
Noun
czas m inan (related adjective czasôwy)
- time
References