obóz

See also: ôbōz and ôbóz

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obozъ. First attested in 1490.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔbɔːs/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔbos/

Noun

obóz m ?

1. camp (fortified place in the open air where the army gathers and stays during a military expedition)
   • 1856-1870 [1490], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki, volume II, number 4360:

     Ipsi coram eodem capitaneo duos debent statuere..., cum quibus stabant in oboz, et alios duos, qui cum eis stabant in exercitu al. v szyku

     [Ipsi coram eodem capitaneo duos debent statuere..., cum quibus stabant in obóz, et alios duos, qui cum eis stabant in exercitu al. w szyku]

Descendants

• Masurian: ôbóz
• Polish: obóz
• Silesian: ôbōz

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “obóz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “obóz”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obóz”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “obóz”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish obóz. By surface analysis, deverbal from obwieźć.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bus/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bos/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbus
• Syllabification: o‧bóz

Noun

obóz m inan (related adjective obozowy)

1. camp (outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures)
2. camp (place where people live temporarily in primitive conditions) [+ dla (genitive) = for whom]

   Synonym: koczowisko

   obóz dla uchodźców ― refugee camp

3. camp (base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
   1. camp (soldiers at such a base)
4. camp (place where people are forcibly detained for various reasons)
   1. camp (people at such a place)
5. camp (recreation consisting of a given group spending time of people outside their place of residence, at least for a few days, enabling them to combine rest with study or sport)
   1. camp (people participating in such recreation)
6. camp (training intended for athletes, carried out to improve their physical condition and skills before sports competitions)

   Synonym: zgrupowanie

7. camp (group of people with the same strong ideals, goals, or political leanings)

   Synonyms: stronnictwo, ugrupowanie

Declension

Declension of obóz

	singular	plural
nominative	obóz	obozy
genitive	obozu	obozów
dative	obozowi	obozom
accusative	obóz	obozy
instrumental	obozem	obozami
locative	obozie	obozach
vocative	obozie	obozy

Derived terms

nouns

• najweselszy barak w obozie
• obóz dochodzeniowy
• obóz jeniecki
• obóz koncentracyjny
• obóz odosobnienia
• obóz pracy
• obóz przetrwania
• obóz śmierci
• obóz zagłady

 

verbs

• rozbić obóz pf, rozbijać obóz impf

 

Descendants

• → Lithuanian: abazas

See also

• zielona szkoła, zimowisko

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obóz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 17 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 636th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• obóz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• obóz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obóz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “OBÓZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.10.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[2]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[3]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 497