Masurian edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from poprazicz. Compare Polish poprawa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [pɔˈprava]
  • Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa

Noun edit

poprawa f

  1. improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better)

Further reading edit

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2021) “poprawa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur[2], volume 6, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 240

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from poprawić.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Kashubian pòprawa, Masurian poprawa, Silesian poprawa, and Carpathian Rusyn поправа (poprava).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

poprawa f

  1. improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better) [+ w (locative) = at what]
    1. improvement (change in one's behavior for the better)
      Synonym: korekta
    2. improvement, recovery (change in one's health for the better)
  2. (obsolete) repair (fixing or repairing)
    Synonyms: naprawa, reperacja
  3. (obsolete) increase (act of making larger or higher in value)

Declension edit

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poprawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 46 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 970th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “poprawa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “prawy”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “poprawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “poprawa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 404

Further reading edit

Silesian edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from poprawić. Compare Polish poprawa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈprava/
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa

Noun edit

poprawa f

  1. improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better)

Declension edit

Further reading edit