kontrola

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kontrolle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkontrola]

• Audio:

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Noun

kontrola f

1. inspection (the act of examining something, often closely)

   mít pod kontrolou ― to have under control

   dostat pod kontrolu ― to get under control

   získat kontrolu nad územím ― to gain control over the territory

   provést kontrolu ― to conduct a check

2. feature (in orienteering)

Declension

Declension of kontrola (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	kontrola	kontroly
genitive	kontroly	kontrol
dative	kontrole	kontrolám
accusative	kontrolu	kontroly
vocative	kontrolo	kontroly
locative	kontrole	kontrolách
instrumental	kontrolou	kontrolami

Derived terms

• kontrolní

 

Further reading

• kontrola in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kontrola in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• kontrola in Internetová jazyková příručka

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French contrôle. First attested in 1787. Compare Silesian kōntrola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈtrɔ.la/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: kon‧tro‧la

Noun

kontrola f (related adjective kontrolny)

1. inspection (act of examining something, often closely)
   1. check-up (inspection at a doctor or mechanic)
2. (colloquial) control (authority or institution)

Declension

Declension of kontrola

	singular	plural
nominative	kontrola	kontrole
genitive	kontroli	kontroli
dative	kontroli	kontrolom
accusative	kontrolę	kontrole
instrumental	kontrolą	kontrolami
locative	kontroli	kontrolach
vocative	kontrolo	kontrole

Derived terms

nouns

• autokontrola
• kontrola osobista
• kontrolka
• samokontrola

 

Related terms

adverbs

• kontrolnie

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: kòntrola
• → Masurian: kóntrola

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kontrola is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 37 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 858th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• kontrola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kontrola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kontrola”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[3]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kontrola”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 455
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kontrola”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kontrǒːla/
• Hyphenation: kon‧tro‧la

Noun

kontróla f (Cyrillic spelling контро́ла)

1. control
2. inspection (authority)

Declension

Declension of kontrola

	singular	plural
nominative	kontrola	kontrole
genitive	kontrole	kontrola
dative	kontroli	kontrolama
accusative	kontrolu	kontrole
vocative	kontrolo	kontrole
locative	kontroli	kontrolama
instrumental	kontrolom	kontrolama