czas

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Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *časъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃas/
  • Syllabification: czas

Noun

czas m inan (diminutive czask)

  1. 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

  1. time (passage of moments into the future)
    1. moment in time
    2. period; length of time
  2. time (particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something)
  3. deadline
  4. time of day; hour

Derived terms

adjectives
adverbs
nouns

Descendants

  • Masurian: cas
  • Polish: czas
  • Silesian: czas, czŏs

References

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish czas.

Pronunciation

Noun

czas m inan

  1. time (particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something)
    Synonym: pora
  2. time (way to measure the current hour)
    czas GreenwichGreenwich time
  3. time (period between two events)
  4. (sports) time (result in a timed event)
  5. time; period (length of time)
    w połowie czasuhalf-way through
  6. (linguistics) tense
  7. (Middle Polish) deadline
  8. (Middle Polish) years
  9. (Middle Polish) season
    Synonym: pora roku
  10. (Middle Polish) day (full 24 hours)
    Synonym: doba
  11. (Middle Polish) hour
    Synonym: godzina
  12. (Middle Polish, fortune telling) augural sign

Declension

The instrumental form czasy is obsolete and survives only in set phrases (ostatnimi czasy).

Derived terms

adjectives
adverbs
idioms
nouns
particle
phrases
preposition
verbs
verbs

Verb

czas impf (defective)

  1. (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

  1. ^ 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

  1. time
    1. moment in time
      Synonyms: chwila, mōmynt, pora
    2. period; length of time
  2. (grammar) tense
  3. (meteorology) weather
    Synonym: pogoda
  4. (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)

  1. time

References