kolej
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Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Czech kolejě, from Proto-Slavic *kolěja.
Noun
kolej f
Declension
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin collēgium.
Noun
kolej f
Declension
Further reading
- kolej in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- kolej in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- kolej in Internetová jazyková příručka
Polish
Alternative forms
- kolij, koli (Middle Polish)
- koleja (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish koleja, with an unexpected loss of -a-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lɛj/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lɛj/, /ˈkɔ.lej/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔlɛj
- Syllabification: ko‧lej
Noun
kolej f (related adjective kolejowy)
- (countable) rail, railway (transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods)
- Synonyms: kolej żelazna, droga żelazna
- (countable) rail, railway (enterprise dealing with rail transportation)
- Polskie Koleje Państwowe ― Polish State Railways
- (countable) train (vehicle that moves on rails)
- Synonym: pociąg
- (countable) rail (route designated by tracks)
- (countable) rail, railway (wagons or lifts placed on a rope or tracks that lead to a mountain peak)
- (uncountable) turn (appropriate time for a person to take an action i.e. in a game)
- Near-synonym: pora
- Jest twoja kolej. ― It's your turn.
- (chiefly in the plural) order (natural sequence of events)
- Near-synonym: następstwo
- (countable, obsolete) rut (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
- Synonym: koleina
- (countable, obsolete) hairdo (particular way in which one places their hair)
Declension
Declension of kolej
Derived terms
adjectives
adverbs
nouns
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Related terms
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kolej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 18 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 112 times, making it the 548th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
- kolej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kolej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kolej”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “KOLEJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.12.2010
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 398
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kolej (definite accusative koleji, plural kolejler)
Declension
References
kolej on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
