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Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from poprawić.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Kashubian pòprawa, Silesian poprawa, and Carpathian Rusyn поправа (poprava).
Pronunciation
Noun
poprawa f
- improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better)
- improvement (change in one's behavior for the better)
- Synonym: korekta
- improvement, recovery (change in one's health for the better)
- (obsolete) repair (fixing or repairing)
- Synonyms: naprawa, reperacja
- (obsolete) increase (act of making larger or higher in value)
Declension
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poprawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 46 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 970th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “poprawa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “prawy”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “poprawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “poprawa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 404
Further reading
- poprawa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- poprawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “POPRAWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.01.2009
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 667
Silesian
Etymology
Deverbal from poprawić. Compare Polish poprawa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔˈprava/
- Rhymes: -ava
- Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa
Noun
poprawa f
- improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better)
Declension
Further reading