prawo
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See also: prawò
Masurian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish prawo. By surface analysis, prawy + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
prawo n
- right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
- law (binding regulation or custom established in a community)
- law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities)
- (law) decree, judgement (resolution of a legal dispute)
Adverb
prawo (not comparable)
- (only in some phrases) to the right; on the right
Further reading
- Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “i. prawo, II. prawo”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 7, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 8-9
Old Polish
Etymology
From prawy + -o. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
prawo n
- law (group or system of legally binding norms)
- law (one such norm)
- right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
- document granting or ensuring a right
- court; court session
- jurisdiction (material, personal or territorial scope of the court)
- judgement (court's decision)
- duty or obligation resulting from a legal decision
- justice, fairness
Descendants
References
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “prawo”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “prawo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “prawo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish prawo. By surface analysis, prawy + -o. Compare Kashubian prawò and Slovincian prawô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpra.vɔ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈprɒ.vɔ/
Audio 1 (file) Audio 2 (file) - Rhymes: -avɔ
- Syllabification: pra‧wo
Noun
prawo n (related adjective prawny)
- (uncountable) law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities)
- Synonyms: legislacja, prawodawstwo, ustawodawstwo
- (uncountable) law (discipline studying such a body; formal field of study of such at an institution; branch at such an institution dedicated to such study)
- Synonym: prawoznawstwo
- (countable) law (binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way)
- (countable) right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
- Synonym: uprawnienie
- (countable) law (natural rule that must be followed)
- Synonym: zasada
- (obsolete) lawsuit
- Synonym: proces
- (obsolete) duty, obligation
- pretense (unsupported claim made or implied)
- Synonyms: pretensja, roszczenie
- (obsolete) correctness, fairness; rightness (state of being correct, fair, or right)
Declension
Declension of prawo
Adverb
prawo (not comparable)
Derived terms
adverbs
nouns
- bierne prawo wyborcze
- czynne prawo wyborcze
- konflikt z prawem
- prawa człowieka
- prawa kardynalne
- prawo autorskie
- prawo chełmińskie
- prawo dżungli
- prawo dżungli
- prawo jazdy
- prawo książęce
- prawo magdeburskie
- prawo magdeburskie
- prawo materialne
- prawo Mojżeszowe
- prawo naturalne
- prawo natury
- prawo Parkinsona
- prawo pierwotne
- prawo poboru
- prawo powielaczowe
- prawo procesowe
- prawo rzeczowe
- prawo serii
- prawo starszeństwa
- prawo średzkie
- prawo ulicy
- prawo wtórne
- psie prawo
- stróż prawa
- wilcze prawo
particle
phrase
verbs
Related terms
adjective
adverb
nouns
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prawo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 45 times in news, 75 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 42 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 249 times, making it the 213th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
- prawo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- prawo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “prawo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “prawo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “PRAWO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2015 June 30
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 980
- prawo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish prawo. By surface analysis, prawy + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
prawo n
- law (group or system of legally binding norms)
- right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
- right side, right direction (not left)
Declension
Declension of prawo
Further reading
- prawo in silling.org