Polish

See also: polish

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation): Pl.

Etymology

Pole +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/
• (US) enPR: pōʹlĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/

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Adjective

Polish (not comparable)

1. Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

Synonyms

• Polono- (prefix)

Derived terms

• Polish notation
• reverse Polish notation

Translations

of Poland or its language

• Albanian: polak (sq)
• Arabic: بُولَنْدِيّ‎ (bulandiyy), بُولَنْدِيّ‎ (bōlandiyy)
• Armenian: լեհական (hy) (lehakan), լեհերեն (hy) (leheren) (relating to the language)
• Asturian: polacu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: polyak
• Belarusian: по́льскі (pólʹski)
• Bengali: পোলীয় (bn) (polīy)
• Breton: poloniat, polonek (relating to the language)
• Bulgarian: по́лски (bg) (pólski)
• Burmese: ပိုလန် (puilan)
• Catalan: polonès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波蘭的 (zh), 波兰的 (zh) (Bōlán de)

• Cornish: polonek
• Crimean Tatar: Leh
• Czech: polský (cs)
• Danish: polsk (da)
• Dutch: Pools (nl)
• East Central German: pulsch (Silesian)
• Esperanto: pola (eo)
• Estonian: poola
• Faroese: pólskur
• Finnish: puolalainen (fi)
• French: polonais (fr)
• Galician: polaco (gl), polonés
• Georgian: პოლონური (ṗolonuri) (relating to everything except the people), პოლონელი (ṗoloneli) (relating to the people)
• German: polnisch (de)
• Greek: πολωνικός (el) m (polonikós), πολωνέζικος (el) m (polonézikos)
• Hawaiian: Pōlani
• Hebrew: פּוֹלָנִי‎‎ (polaní)
• Hindi: पोलिश (hi) (poliś)
• Hungarian: lengyel (hu)
• Icelandic: pólskur (is)
• Interlingua: polonese (ia), polac
• Irish: Polannach
• Italian: polacco (it)
• Japanese: ポーランドの (ja) (Pōrando no)
• Kashubian: pòlsczi
• Kazakh: поляк (polyak)
• Khmer: ប៉ូឡូញ (km) (poulouñ)
• Korean: 폴란드의 (ko) (pollandeuui), 뽈스까의 (ko) (ppolseukkaui) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: поляк (ky) (polyak)
• Lao: ໂປແລັນ (pō læn)
• Latin: Polonicus (la) m
• Latvian: poļu, polisks
• Lithuanian: lenkiškas, lenkų (lt)

• Macedonian: полски (polski)
• Maltese: Pollakk
• Marathi: पोलिश (poliś)
• Mongolian: польш (polʹš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: polsk (no)

  Nynorsk: polsk (nn)

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: пол҄ьскъ (polʹĭskŭ)

• Old East Slavic: польскъ (polĭskŭ)
• Ottoman Turkish: له‎‎ (leh)
• Pashto: پولنډی‎ (рolanḍáy)
• Persian: لهستانی‎ (fa) (lahestâni)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Poelish
• Polish: polski (pl)
• Portuguese: polonês (pt), polaco (pt)
• Romanian: polonez (ro), polon (ro)
• Russian: по́льский (ru) (pólʹskij)
• Rusyn: по́льскый (pólʹskŷj)
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòlainneach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏љскӣ

  Roman: pȍljskī (sh)

• Silesian: polski m, polsko f
• Slovak: poľský (sk)
• Slovene: póljski (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pólski

  Upper Sorbian: pólski (hsb)

• Spanish: polaco (es) m, polonés m
• Swahili: Kipolandi, Kipoli
• Swedish: polsk (sv)
• Tagalog: Polako
• Tajik: полякӣ (tg) (polyakī), лаҳистонӣ (lahistonī)
• Tatar: поляк (polyak)
• Thai: โปแลนด์ (th) (bpoo-lɛɛn)
• Turkish: Polonyalı (tr), Leh (tr)
• Turkmen: polýak
• Ukrainian: по́льський (uk) (pólʹsʹkyj)
• Urdu: پولش‎ (poliś)
• Uyghur: پولەك‎ (polek)
• Uzbek: polyak (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ba Lan (vi)
• Welsh: Pwylaidd
• Yiddish: פּויליש‎ (poylish)

Noun

Polish (uncountable)

1. The language spoken in Poland.

Related terms

• Middle Polish
• Old Polish

Translations

the language of Poland

• Afrikaans: Pools (af)
• Albanian: gjuha polake (sq)
• Arabic: بُولَنْدِيَّة‎ (ar) f (bōlandiyya), بُولَنْدِيَّة‎ (ar) f (bōlandiyya)
• Armenian: լեհերեն (hy) (leheren)
• Asturian: polacu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: polyak, polyak dili
• Basque: poloniera (eu)
• Bavarian: poinisch
• Belarusian: по́льская мо́ва f (pólʹskaja móva), по́льская f (pólʹskaja)
• Breton: poloneg m
• Bulgarian: полски (bg) m (pólski)
• Catalan: polonès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波蘭語 (zh), 波兰语 (zh) (bōlányǔ)

• Cornish: Polonek m
• Czech: polština (cs) f
• Danish: polsk (da)
• Dutch: Pools (nl) n
• Esperanto: pola (eo)
• Estonian: poola
• Faroese: pólskt (fo) n
• Finnish: puola (fi), puolan kieli
• French: polonais (fr) m
• Galician: polaco (gl) m
• Georgian: პოლონური (ṗolonuri)
• German: Polnisch (de) n
• Greek: πολωνικά (el) n pl (poloniká)
• Greenlandic: polenimiutut
• Hebrew: פולנית‎ (he) f (polnít)
• Hindi: पोलिश (hi) (poliś)
• Hungarian: lengyel (hu)
• Icelandic: pólska (is) f
• Indonesian: bahasa Polandia (id)
• Interlingua: polonese (ia)
• Irish: Polainnis
• Italian: polacco (it) m
• Japanese: ポーランド語 (ja) (ポーランドご, pōrandogo)
• Kashubian: pòlsczi jãzëk
• Kazakh: поляк (polyak)
• Korean: 폴란드어 (ko) (pollandeueo)
• Latvian: poļu, poļu valoda f
• Lithuanian: lenkų (lt), lenkiškai
• Low German:

  German Low German: Poolsch (nds) n

• Macedonian: полски m (polski)

• Malay: bahasa Poland
• Maltese: Pollakk
• Mapudungun: pulska dungun
• Marathi: पोलिश (poliś)
• Moksha: польшань (polʹšanʹ)
• Navajo: Póolish Dineʼé bizaad
• Nepali: पोलिश (poliś)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: polsk (no)

  Nynorsk: polsk (nn)

• Persian: لهستانی‎ (fa) (lahestâni)
• Polish: język polski m inan, polszczyzna (pl) f
• Portuguese: polonês (pt) m, polaco (pt) m
• Romanian: poloneză (ro) f, polonă (ro) f
• Russian: по́льский (ru) m (pólʹskij) (язы́к)
• Scots: Pols
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòlainnis
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏љскӣ m

  Roman: pȍljskī (sh) m

• Silesian: polsko godka f
• Slovak: poľština (sk) f, poľský (sk) m
• Slovene: póljščina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pólšćina f

  Upper Sorbian: pólšćina (hsb) f

• Spanish: polaco (es) m
• Swahili: Kipolandi, Kipoli
• Swedish: polska (sv)
• Tamil: போலிஷ் (pōliṣ)
• Tatar: поляк (polyak)
• Thai: ภาษาโปแลนด์ (paa-sǎa bpoo-lɛɛn)
• Tigrinya: ፖሊሽ (poliš)
• Turkish: Lehçe (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́льська мо́ва (uk) f (pólʹsʹka móva), по́льська (uk) f (pólʹsʹka)
• Urdu: پولستانی‎ f (polstāni)
• Uyghur: پولەكچە‎ (polekche)
• Uzbek: polyakcha (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Ba-lan
• Walloon: polonès (wa)
• Welsh: Pwyleg (cy) f
• West Frisian: Poalsk (fy)
• Zulu: Isipholisha

See also

• Pole
• Wikibooks:Polish language course
• Wiktionary's coverage of Polish terms
• Appendix:Polish Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Polish

Further reading

• Polish - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code pl, ISO 639-3 code pol
• Ethnologue entry for Polish, pol

Anagrams

• Hislop, philos