obszar
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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle High German oberschar. First attested in 1253.
Pronunciation
Noun
obszar m animacy unattested
- extra land of a farm that lies outside a premeasured field
- 1874 [1358], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące, volume X, page 118:
- Remanencias seu residuitates agrorum vltra mensuram laneorum vlg. obschari de nostro speciali regio fauore graciose elargimur
- [Remanencias seu residuitates agrorum vltra mensuram laneorum vlg. obszary de nostro speciali regio fauore graciose elargimur]
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “obszar”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “obszar”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obszar”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “obszar”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish obszar.
Pronunciation
Noun
obszar m inan (related adjective obszarowy)
- area (particular geographic region; limited area, particularly a large one)
- Synonyms: obręb, strefa, terytorium, zona
- area (particular area affected by something)
- Synonym: dziedzina
- (by extension, figuratively) area, domain (any extent, scope, or range)
- Synonym: dziedzina
- (topology) domain, region (non-empty connected open set in a topological space)
- (obsolete) voluminosity (large measure of something; big size)
- (obsolete) land; field
- (Middle Polish) additional land beyond a measured field
Declension
Declension of obszar
Derived terms
nouns
Related terms
adjective
adverb
noun
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obszar is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 22 times in news, 17 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 869th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
Further reading
- obszar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- obszar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obszar”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obszar”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obszar”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obszar”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 523