Biała

See also: biala, biała, białą, and Białą

English

Etymology

From Polish Biała.

Proper noun

Biała

1. A town in Opole, Poland.

Related terms

• Biała Podlaska

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比亞瓦 / 比亚瓦

• Czech: Bělá f
• Latin: Bela, Czolz
• Latvian: Bjala f
• Polish: Biała (pl) f
• Russian: Бя́ла (ru) f (Bjála)
• Silesian: Biołŏ
• Ukrainian: Бя́ла f (Bjála), Бі́ла (uk) f (Bíla)

Polish

Biała (city in Opole Voivodeship)

Etymology 1

From biały (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbja.wa/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: Bia‧ła
• Homophone: biała

Proper noun

Biała f (related adjective bialski)

1. a town in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

   Synonyms: (colloquial) Biała Prudnicka, (historic) Biały, (historic) Biały Solc

2. a river in Poland, tributary of the Dunajec
3. a river in Poland, tributary of the Vistula

Declension

Declension of Biała

	singular
nominative	Biała
genitive	Białej
dative	Białej
accusative	Białą
instrumental	Białą
locative	Białej
vocative	Biała

Derived terms

nouns

• bialanin
• bialanka

proper nouns

• Biała Prudnicka

Etymology 2

Referring to the Biała, a tributary of the Vistula.

Biała (former city in Silesian Voivodeship)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbja.wa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: Bia‧ła

Proper noun

Biała f

1. a former city Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, now part of Bielsko-Biała, called Biała Krakowska from 1925 until 1939

Declension

Declension of Biała

	singular
nominative	Biała
genitive	Białej
dative	Białej
accusative	Białą
instrumental	Białą
locative	Białej
vocative	Biała

Derived terms

adjective

• bialski

nouns

• bialanin
• bialanka

proper nouns

• Biała Krakowska
• Bielsko-Biała

Etymology 3

Calque of Ukrainian Бі́ла (Bíla), from Ukrainian бі́лий (bílyj, “white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbja.wa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awa
• Syllabification: Bia‧ła

Proper noun

Biała f

1. Bila (a village in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine)
2. Bila (a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine)
3. Bila (a former village in Zhovkiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Biała

	singular
nominative	Biała
genitive	Białej
dative	Białej
accusative	Białą
instrumental	Białą
locative	Białej
vocative	Biała

Derived terms

adjective

• bialski

nouns

• bialanin
• bialanka

See also

• Bielsko

Further reading

• Biała in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Biała”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022