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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish obłąd, obłęd. By surface analysis, deverbal from obłądzić (się), obłędzić (się).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔbwɛnt
- Syllabification: o‧błęd
Noun
obłęd m inan (diminutive (humorous) obłędzik)
- mental illness, madness, insanity
- something unearthly, eeriness
- (colloquial) chaos, turmoil, mayhem
- (obsolete) error, lapse, mistake
- Synonyms: błąd, chyba, chybienie, omyłka, uchybienie
- (obsolete) going astray
- Synonym: zbłądzenie
- (obsolete) winding, circuitous road
- Hypernym: droga
Declension
Derived terms
Interjection
obłęd
- wow
Further reading
- obłęd in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- obłęd in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obłęd”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]