materiał

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See also: material, Material, and materiál

Polish[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Material.[1][2] First attested in 1743.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /maˈtɛ.rjaw/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛrjaw
  • Syllabification: ma‧te‧riał

Noun[edit]

materiał m inan (diminutive materialik, related adjective materiałowy, abbreviation mat.)

  1. material (substance with given qualities)
  2. material (something out of which something else is made) [+ na (accusative) = for what]
    Synonym: tworzywo
  3. material (cloth of fabric)
    Synonym: materia
  4. material (collcetion of knowledge and facts of a given field) [+ do (genitive) = to/for what]
  5. (colloquial) material (person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity) [+ na (accusative) = what kind of material]
    Synonym: kandydat
  6. (chiefly in the plural) supply; material (office or school item such as a pen)
  7. material (text to be printed)
  8. (law, in some collocations) material (incriminating information)

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

adjective
nouns

Related terms[edit]

adverb

Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: materiôł

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), materiał is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 78 times in scientific texts, 27 times in news, 72 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 294th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “materiał”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “materiał”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. ^ Ewa Rodek (26.11.2019) “MATERIAŁ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “materiał”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 237

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