Old Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle High German oberschar. First attested in 1253.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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obszar m animacy unattested

  1. extra land of a farm that lies outside a premeasured field
    • 1874 [1358], Monumenta Medii Aevi Historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia. Pomniki Dziejowe Wieków Średnich do objaśnienia rzeczy polskich służące[2], volume X, page 118:
      Remanencias seu residuitates agrorum vltra mensuram laneorum vlg. obschari de nostro speciali regio fauore graciose elargimur
      [Remanencias seu residuitates agrorum vltra mensuram laneorum vlg. obszary de nostro speciali regio fauore graciose elargimur]

Descendants

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  • Polish: obszar
    • Belarusian: абшар (abšar)
    • Ukrainian: о́бшар (óbšar)
  • Silesian: ôbszar

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish obszar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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obszar m inan (related adjective obszarowy)

  1. area (particular geographic region; limited area, particularly a large one)
    Synonyms: obręb, strefa, terytorium, zona
  2. area (particular area affected by something)
    Synonym: dziedzina
  3. (by extension, figuratively) area, domain (any extent, scope, or range)
    Synonym: dziedzina
  4. (topology) domain, region (non-empty connected open set in a topological space)
  5. (obsolete) voluminosity (large measure of something; big size)
  6. (obsolete) land; field
  7. (Middle Polish) additional land beyond a measured field

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obszar is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 22 times in news, 17 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 869th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “obszar”, 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 306

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