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Polish
Etymology
From porównać + -anie. First attested in 1500–1547. Compare Kashubian pòrównanié and Silesian porōwnanie.
Pronunciation
Noun
porównanie n
- (uncountable) verbal noun of porównać; comparison (act of comparing or the state or process of being compared)
- (countable) comparison (evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other)
- (countable, rhetoric) simile (figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, in Polish typically formed with the words jak, niby, niż)
- (countable, Middle Polish) equinox (one of two times in the year when the length of the day and the night are equal)
- Synonym: równonoc
- (uncountable, Middle Polish) equality (state of being equal)
- Synonym: równość
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), porównanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 23 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1096th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “porównanie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “porównanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 407
Further reading
- porównanie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- porównanie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Paweł Kupiszewski (01.10.2019) “PORÓWNANIE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “porównanie”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “porównanie”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “porównanie”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 718