See also: polityką

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (standard) /pɔˈli.tɨ.ka/
  • IPA(key): (colloquial; common in casual speech) /pɔ.liˈtɨ.ka/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔˈli.tɨ.ka/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨka
  • Syllabification: po‧li‧ty‧ka

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολιτική (τέχνη) (politikḗ (tékhnē), art of politics).[1][2][3] First attested in 1588.[4]

Noun

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polityka f (diminutive polityczka, related adjective polityczny)

  1. politics (methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement)
  2. politics (political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict)
  3. politics (profession of conducting political affairs)
  4. politics (skillful and orderly action to achieve specific goals)
  5. policy (plan or course of action)
  6. (obsolete) etiquette; politeness
    Synonym: etykieta
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Descendants
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  • Kashubian: pòlitika
  • Masurian: politikä

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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polityka m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of polityk

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), polityka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 83 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 404th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “polityka”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “polityka”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “polityka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “polityka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “polityka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 397

Further reading

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Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Politik.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɔˈlitɪka/
  • Rhymes: -itɪka
  • Syllabification: po‧li‧ty‧ka

Noun

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polityka f (related adjective polityczny)

  1. politics (methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement)
  2. ignition wire (wire for igniting the gunpowder in a mortar)
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Further reading

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  • polityka in silling.org
  • Bogdan Kallus (2020) “polityka”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 362