foksal

See also: Foksal

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Vauxhall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔk.sal/

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• Rhymes: -ɔksal
• Syllabification: fok‧sal
• Homophone: Foksal

Noun

foksal m inan

1. (dated) train station
   • 2021 February 3, Irena Krzywicka, Siew przyszłości, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     To człowiek na pieniądze pazerny i pijak. Najgorsze, że teraz przy murarce zarobić nie może, bo zima idzie, ale i w domu mało bywa, bo na foksale chodzi i tragarzom pomaga dźwigać.

     He is a man greedy for money and a drunkard. The worst thing is that now at the masonry he can not earn money, because winter is coming, but also at home he is not much, because he goes to train stations and helps porters to lift luggage.

2. (dated) pleasure garden (park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment)
   • 1982, Kazimierz Nowacki, Architektura krakowskich teatrów:

     Tego typu foksale, zwane także ogrodami rozrywkowymi, były w Krakowie popularne w XVIII i XIX w.

     Such gardens, also known as pleasure gardens, were popular in Krakow in the 18th and 19th centuries

Declension

Declension of foksal

	singular	plural
nominative	foksal	foksale
genitive	foksalu	foksali
dative	foksalowi	foksalom
accusative	foksal	foksale
instrumental	foksalem	foksalami
locative	foksalu	foksalach
vocative	foksalu	foksale

Further reading

• foksal in Polish dictionaries at PWN