kieszeń

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kieszeń

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Belarusian кішэ́нь (kišénʹ).[1][2]

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Noun[edit]

kieszeń f (diminutive kieszonka, related adjective kieszeniowy)

  1. pocket; pouch (bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items)
    Synonym: (regional) kabza
  2. (figuratively) pocket (person's financial resources)
    Synonyms: kabza, portfel, sakiewka, trzos
  3. compartment (part of the casing of some devices in the form of a slot into which something is inserted) [+ na (accusative) = for what]
  4. (theater) wing (room next to the theater stage for storing decorations)

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Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kieszeń is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 2 times in essays, 41 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 54 times, making it the 1191st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “kieszeń”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “kieszeń”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kieszeń”, 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 177

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