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Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of w + obec.[1][2][3] First attested in the 16th century.[4] Compare Czech vůbec.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔbɛt͡s
- Syllabification: wo‧bec
Preposition
wobec
- regarding, concerning, vis-à-vis, in relation to
- Synonyms: w stosunku do, względem
- Near-synonym: dla
- wobec tego ― therefor
- denotes a usually negative action aimed at someone; towards, against
- Near-synonym: w obliczu
- in comparison to; vis-à-vis, in relation to
- Near-synonym: w porównaniu z
- in the presence of; vis-à-vis
- Synonym: przy
- (obsolete, except in set collocations) because of
- Synonym: z powodu
- wobec powyższego ― for this reason
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wobec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 69 times in essays, 27 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 172 times, making it the 335th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
Adverb
wobec (not comparable)
- (obsolete) directly; in someone's presence
- Synonym: bezpośrednio
- (Middle Polish) altogether; in all; together
- Synonyms: ogółem, razem
- wszem i wobec ― to each and everyone
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wobec”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wobec”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obec”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wobec”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wobec”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 673
Further reading
- wobec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wobec in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Paweł Kupiszewski (27.04.2023) “WOBEC”, 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) “wobec”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wobec”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wobec”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 670