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Polish
Etymology
Back-formation from gorący.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔrɔnt͡s
- Syllabification: go‧rąc
Noun
gorąc m inan
- (colloquial) heatwave, scorching heat
- Synonyms: skwar, upał
2004, Piotr Meyer, pl.regionalne.wroclaw, Usenet:Około osiemdziesięciu chłopa w mocno zwichrowanej, trójkowej kolumnie. Widać było, że cokolwiek się nudzą i raczej starają się trzymać cienia, bo gorąc był nieprzyjemny.- Around eighty men in a rather disorderly, poorly done column. You could see that they were more bored than anything, and they usually kept to the shade, as the heat was unpleasant.
2006, aga-h, pl.rec.kuchnia, Usenet:A ty dudus gorac ci do glowy uderzyl? Moze bys dal upust adrenalinie w inny sposob.- And you, Dudus, did the heatwave go to your head? Perhaps you could use up your adrenaline in some other way?
- (Przemyśl, more generally) heat
Declension
Further reading
- gorąc in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gorąc in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Saloni (1899) “gorąc”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 238