pociąg

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pociąg

Alternative forms

  • ciapong (childish or ironic, humorous)

Etymology

Deverbal from pociągać. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French train, English train, and German Zug.[1] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French inclination.[1] First attested in 1550.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.t͡ɕɔŋk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕɔŋk
  • Syllabification: po‧ciąg

Noun

pociąg m inan (related adjective pociągowy)

  2. train (mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport)
    Pociąg do Warszawy odjeżdża za godzinę. ― The train to Warsaw departs in an hour.
  4. inclination, predilection, proclivity, predisposition, penchant (condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards)
  5. (Middle Polish, construction) traverse holding up a wooden construction [2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  6. (Middle Polish, birding) line that one pulls to close a fowler's net [2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  7. (Middle Polish, sailing) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along; the sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars, and ropes) [2]
    Synonym: żagiel
  8. (obsolete) animal-drawn vehicle [3][4]
  9. (obsolete) pulling (act by which something is pulled) [5][4]
    Synonym: pociąganie

Declension

Declension of pociąg
singular plural
nominative pociąg pociągi
genitive pociągu pociągów
dative pociągowi pociągom
accusative pociąg pociągi
instrumental pociągiem pociągami
locative pociągu pociągach
vocative pociągu pociągi

Derived terms

nouns
verbs

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “pociąg”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (04.09.2018) “POCIĄG”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  5. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 2, page 772

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