browar

Old Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German brouwer (“brewer”). First attested in c. 1500.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /brɔvaːr/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /brɔvɒr/

Noun

browar m animacy unattested

1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland, hapax legomenon) brewery
   • 1876-1929 [c. 1455], Vatroslav Jagić, editor, Archiv für slavische Philologie‎^[1], volume XIV, Miechów, Kruchowo, page 489:

     Browar

     [Browar]

Descendants

• Polish: browar
• Silesian: brŏwŏr

References

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “browar”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “browar”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
• K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “browar”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 165
• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “browar”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

• browor (Zagórze)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle High German brouwerbor.

Old Polish browar

Polish browar

Inherited from Old Polish browar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔ.var/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔ.vɒr/
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Lasovia) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔ.var]
  • (Goral):
    • (Podhale) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔ.var]
• (Borderlands):
  • (Northern Borderlands) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔ.var]

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• Rhymes: -ɔvar
• Syllabification: bro‧war

Noun

browar m inan (diminutive browarek, related adjective browarny or browarowy)

1. brewery (place where beer is produced)

   Synonyms: browarnia, piwiarnia

2. (colloquial) brew; beer

   Synonym: piwo

3. (colloquial) brew; beer (one portion of beer)

   Synonym: piwo

4. (Podhale) large tin teapot

   Hypernym: imbryk

5. (Lasovia) center (middle of a ring used in a game called świnia)
6. (Northern Borderlands) distillery (factory that produces distilled alcoholic beverages, especially vodka)

   Synonym: gorzelnia

7. (obsolete) alehouse, beer parlour; brewery (place where guests are served beer produced on site)

   Synonym: piwiarnia

Declension

Declension of browar

	singular	plural
nominative	browar	browary
genitive	browaru	browarów
dative	browarowi	browarom
accusative	browar	browary
instrumental	browarem	browarami
locative	browarze	browarach
vocative	browarze	browary

Further reading

• “browar”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “browar”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “browar”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “BROWAR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.12.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “browar”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “browar”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “browar”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 209
• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “browar”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 121