ruch

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

ruch

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ruch, from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

1. movement, especially brisk, quick movement of many people
2. traffic
3. Onomatopoeia for a striking or cracking sound; bang

Declension

Further reading

• ruch in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ruch in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• ruch in Internetová jazyková příručka

Kashubian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrux/
• Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

1. Alternative form of rëch.

Declension

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “ruch”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎, volume 2, page 885

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

1. move; movement
   • 2018, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Paweł Pogorzelski and Psioter ôt Sziatków (Piotr Szatkowski), Małi Princ [The Little Prince], →ISBN, page 68:

     Ruchi ôt ti arniji bili tak regularne anÿ w baléczie.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈrux/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈrux/

Noun

ruch m inan

1. movement (physical motion between points in space)

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: ruch

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ruch”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Plautdietsch

Adjective

ruch

1. rough, uneven
2. gruff, harsh

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

ruch

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ. First attested in 1579.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rux/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈrux/

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• Rhymes: -ux
• Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

1. movement (physical motion between points in space)

   Synonym: przemieszczanie się

2. movement (movement of the whole body or any part of it, intentionally or involuntarily)
3. movement, exercise (physical activity, the purpose of which is to keep the body in the best condition)
4. traffic (moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof)
5. movement, action, bustle, liveliness (situation characterized by the fact that in a place there are many people who move and perform various activities at the same time)
6. movement (a trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
7. (games) move (turn, act of taking action in a game)

   Synonym: posunięcie

8. act (deliberate action by a person to achieve an intended goal)
9. (literary) change, shift (exchange of someone or something for someone or something else)
10. (mining) coal mine that has been merged with another and incorporated into a larger mining enterprise, but retains relative independence as part of that enterprise's structure (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
11. (military) maneuver (large training exercise of military troops)

    Synonym: manewr

12. (obsolete) tin button with an eyelet
13. (obsolete) taciturn person

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ruch is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 90 times in scientific texts, 58 times in news, 76 times in essays, 37 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 269 times, making it the 186th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

• ruch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ruch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ruch”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ruch”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “ruch”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 761
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ruch”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrux/
• Rhymes: -ux
• Syllabification: ruch

Noun

ruch m inan

1. movement (physical motion between points in space)
2. movement (act of moving a body part)
3. movement (a trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

   Synonyms: akcyjŏ, partyjŏ, stŏwarziszynie

4. (games) move (turn, act of taking action in a game)
5. movement (manner of moving)
6. traffic (moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof)

Declension

Further reading

• ruch in silling.org

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

ruch

Wikipedia ^sk

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rȗxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

ruch m inan

1. movement, action, bustle, liveliness (situation characterized by the fact that in a place there are many people who move and perform various activities at the same time)
2. diligent action

Declension

Further reading

• “ruch”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024