oznaczać
Polish
editEtymology
editFrom oznaczyć + -ać.[1][2] First attested in 1583.[3] Compare Kashubian òznaczac, Masurian ôznacacz, and Silesian ôznaczać.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɔˈzna.t͡ʂat͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɔzˈna.t͡ʂat͡ɕ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -at͡ʂat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: o‧zna‧czać
Verb
editoznaczać impf (perfective oznaczyć)
- (transitive) to mark, to label, to tag (to place an informative symbol on) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
- Synonyms: naznaczać, oznakowywać, znaczyć, znakować
- (transitive) to mark, to label, to tag (to represent some kind of object with a specific symbol) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
- (transitive) to demarcate, to mark out (to determine by choosing)
- (transitive, sciences) to mark out (to establish the place of an object or substance within a particular type of scientific classification or determine a value as a result of measurement) [with instrumental ‘with what’]
- (intransitive, obsolete) to let know; to show (to inform someone or make see)
- (transitive) to assign, to nominate, to name; to allocate, to earmark, to dedicate
- (obsolete, transitive) to mark around something with signs
- (obsolete, reflexive with się) to be marked (to stand out; to differ, to be different)
Conjugation
editVerb
editoznaczać impf
- (transitive) to mean, to signify, to denote (to express something)
- Hypernym: wyrażać
- (transitive) to mean, to imply, to indicate (to indicate with one's form)
- Synonym: znaczyć
- (transitive) to mean (to involve some kind of consequence)
Conjugation
editTrivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oznaczać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 24 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 71 times, making it the 910th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
edit- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “znaczyć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “oznaczać 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “oznaczać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “oznaczać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 349
Further reading
edit- oznaczać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- oznaczać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 927
- oznaczać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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