towar

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word towar. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word towar, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say towar in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word towar you have here. The definition of the word towar will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftowar, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tovarъ. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /tɔvaːr/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /tɔvɒr/

Noun

towar m animacy unattested

  1. merchandise, commodity, goods
    • 1936 [End of the 15th century], Stanisław Estreicher, editor, Najstarszy zbiór przywilejów i wilkierzy miasta Krakowa, page 47:
      Pilnosczom doglendacz chczemy, sze wselky thowar... po latwem, rownem, *sprawietlywem targu przedano, myerzono, wazono
      [Pilnością doględać chcemy, że wszelki towar... po łatwem, rownem, sprawiedliwem targu przedano, mierzono, ważono]
    • 1868 [1440], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego, volume XII, page 79:
      Obligatus est statuere pecora, pecudes et alia quamplura vlg. thowaru pro viginti marcis
      [Obligatus est statuere pecora, pecudes et alia quamplura vlg. towaru pro viginti marcis]
    1. movable property and service
      • 1874 [1485], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące, volume XIV, page 334:
        Habebunt conservacionem... cum omni ipsorum thesauro et cum omnibus ipsorum bonis et cum omnibus, quecunque habebunt, et cum servitoribus ipsorum al. s towarem venire in nostram terram, et venire et manere
        [Habebunt conservacionem... cum omni ipsorum thesauro et cum omnibus ipsorum bonis et cum omnibus, quecunque habebunt, et cum servitoribus ipsorum al. z towarem venire in nostram terram, et venire et manere]

Related terms

adjectives
nouns

Descendants

  • Polish: towar
  • Silesian: tŏwŏr

References

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish towar.

Pronunciation

Noun

towar m inan (diminutive towarek, related adjective towarowy)

  1. merchandise, commodity, goods
  2. (colloquial) young, sexually attractive woman
  3. (colloquial) cargo train, freight train, goods train
    Synonyms: brutto, pociąg towarowy, towarowiec
  4. (obsolete) rawhide or leather of a shoe
  5. (obsolete) cattle
    Synonym: bydło
  6. (forestry) framed wood with a sharp edge
    Synonym: bydło

Declension

Derived terms

nouns

Related terms

adverbs
nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), towar is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 25 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 60 times, making it the 1083rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “towar”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 605

Further reading

  • towar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • towar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “towar”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • TOWAR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 27.06.2011
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “towar”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “towar”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “towar”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 87