Old Polish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

  • Polish: obóz
  • Silesian: ôbōz

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Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

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 uchodźcówrefugee 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

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Trivia edit

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.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “obóz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 303

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