łysina

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See also: lysina and łysiną

Polish

Etymology

From łysy +‎ -ina.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: ły‧si‧na

Noun

łysina f (diminutive łysinka)

  1. bald patch, bald spot
  2. (colloquial) bald head
  3. (colloquial, botany) area devoid of vegetation
  4. stripe, blaze (white facial marking of a horse or cow)
  5. bald-faced cow
  6. (Kociewie, Malbork, anatomy) Synonym of czoło
  7. (Kuyavia) Synonym of głowa

Declension

Further reading

  • łysina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • łysina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “łysina”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 745
  • Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “łysina”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 154
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “łysina”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 11