towar

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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. (attested in Lesser Poland) merchandise, commodity, goods
    • 1936 , Stanisław Estreicher, editor, Najstarszy zbiór przywilejów i wilkierzy miasta Krakowa‎, Krakow, page 47:
      Pilnosczom doglendacz chczemy, sze wselky thowar... po latwem, rownem, *sprawietlywem targu przedano, myerzono, wazono
    • 1868 , 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
    1. movable property and service
      • 1874 , 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
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Descendants

  • Polish: towar
  • Silesian: tŏwŏr

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “towar”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “towar”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “towar”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish towar.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvar
  • Syllabification: to‧war

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
  8. (slang) illegal drugs

Declension

Declension of towar
singular plural
nominative towar towary
genitive towaru towarów
dative towarowi towarom
accusative towar towary
instrumental towarem towarami
locative towarze towarach
vocative towarze towary

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