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Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from zawalić się, in the medical sense a calque of Latin īnfartus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈza.vaw/
- Rhymes: -avaw
- Syllabification: za‧wał
Noun
zawał m inan
- (pathology) infarct, often heart attack
- Hyponym: zawał serca
- (mining) collapse, structural failure (of a mining cave)
Declension
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Further reading
- zawał in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zawał in Polish dictionaries at PWN