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Polish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔdwa
- Syllabification: mo‧dła
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish modła, from Proto-Slavic *modla. By surface analysis, deverbal from modlić się.
Noun
modła f
- (dated) prayer
- Synonym: modlitwa
- (dated) idol (graven image)
- Synonym: bałwan
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Czech.[1] Doublet of model and moduł.
Noun
modła f
- (obsolete) model, pattern
- Synonyms: model, wzór, wzorzec
- Alternative form: (dialectal) modło
Declension
References
Further reading
- modła in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “modły”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “modła”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “modła”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna