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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
zaraz
- second-person singular imperative of zarazit
Polish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aras
- Syllabification: za‧raz
Etymology 1
Univerbation of za + raz.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]
Adverb
zaraz (not comparable)
- at once, immediately
- Synonym: natychmiast
- soon, with a verb, approximately about to
- Synonyms: niedługo, wraz
- Zaraz będzie padać. ― It is about to rain.
- (obsolete) at the same time
- Synonym: zarazem
Particle
zaraz
- used to let someone know that the speaker needs a moment to think about what they want to say and that they will continue speaking in a moment; wait a minute
- Synonym: zaraz, zaraz
- (colloquial) (used to indicate a new insight or dawning understanding; wait a minute
- Synonym: zaraz, zaraz
- (colloquial) used to signal that what has been said is too much; but
- Synonym: od razu
- close, just, right
- Synonym: tuż
- Sklep jest zaraz obok tego budynku. ― The store is right next to this building.
- (obsolete) thereby
- Synonym: tym samym
Derived terms
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zaraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 6 times in essays, 64 times in fiction, and 117 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 199 times, making it the 277th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
zaraz f
- genitive plural of zaraza
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zaraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zaraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zaraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 748
Further reading
- zaraz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zaraz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “ZARAZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.01.2017
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 244