See also: zaraź

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

zaraz

  1. second-person singular imperative of zarazit

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈza.ras/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈza.rɒs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aras
  • Syllabification: za‧raz

Etymology 1 edit

Univerbation of za +‎ raz.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]

Alternative forms edit

Adverb edit

zaraz (not comparable)

  1. at once, immediately
    Synonym: natychmiast
  2. soon, with a verb, approximately about to
    Synonyms: niedługo, wraz
    Zaraz będzie padać.It is about to rain.
  3. (obsolete) at the same time
    Synonym: zarazem

Particle edit

zaraz

  1. 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
  2. (colloquial) (used to indicate a new insight or dawning understanding; wait a minute
    Synonym: zaraz, zaraz
  3. (colloquial) used to signal that what has been said is too much; but
    Synonym: od razu
  4. close, just, right
    Synonym: tuż
    Sklep jest zaraz obok tego budynku.The store is right next to this building.
  5. (obsolete) thereby
    Synonym: tym samym
Descendants edit
  • Kashubian: zarôz
  • Slovincian: zaroz
  • Silesian: zarŏz

Trivia edit

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 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

zaraz f

  1. genitive plural of zaraza

References edit

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zaraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zaraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 748

Further reading edit