See also: budową, bùdowa, bùdową, and bùdowã

Masurian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish budowa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈdɔva/
  • Rhymes: -ɔva
  • Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

Noun

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budowa f

  1. building, construction (act of developing something)
  2. building; construction (closed structure with walls and a roof; that which is constructed)
  3. entirety of constructions
  4. construction (manner in which a building was built)
  5. construction; structure; shape of an object

Further reading

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  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “budowa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur[2], volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 240

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Ruthenian будо́ва (budóva).[1] First attested in the 18th century[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈdɔ.va/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔva
  • Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

Noun

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budowa f

  1. building (act or process of building)
    Synonym: budowanie
    w budowieunder construction
  2. (construction) construction site
    Synonyms: plac budowy, teren budowy
  3. build (system of elements comprising a whole)
    Synonym: struktura
  4. build (shape, look, and proportion of a body)
  5. building, construction (act of developing something)
  6. (obsolete) building, construction (that which is constructed)
    Synonym: budynek

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Masurian: budowa
  • Kashubian: bùdowa
  • Silesian: budowa

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), budowa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 68 times in scientific texts, 62 times in news, 97 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 250 times, making it the 206th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “budowa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “budowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “budowa”, 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 36

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Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish budowa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈdɔva/
  • Rhymes: -ɔva
  • Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

Noun

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budowa f

  1. construction (act of building a physical construction)
    Synonym: budowanie
    • 2012, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Bysuch s Reichu[3], →ISBN, archived from the original on December 1, 2021, page 82:
      A jak tam na zalonym w Wiśle rozbiyrali łojcowizna dziadkowa, bo tyn zalyw goczałkowicki budowali, to cegły s tego, dachówka i bale wziyni my do budowy masztalni s tym małym chlywem.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (construction) construction site
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