grosz

See also: Grosz and Grósz

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Polish grosz. Doublet of kurus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grôsh, IPA^(key): /ɡɹɔʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːʃ
• Homophone: grosze

Noun

grosz (plural grosz or groszy or grosze)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty.
   • 1927 October 29, “Plans New Polish Coins. Cabinet Drafts Currency Scheme, With Ducat at 25 Zloty.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], volume LXXVII, number 25,480, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2025, page 27, column 2:

     There will be silver coins of 5 and 2 zloty and nickel of 1 zloty and 50, 20 and 10 grosz, the divisions of the zloty. Bronze coins of 5, 2 and 1 grosz also will be issued.

Translations

one hundredth of a Polish zloty

• Albanian: grosh (sq) m
• Arabic: قِرْش (ar) m (qirš)
• Armenian: գրոշ (hy) (groš)
• Bats: გროშ class bd (groš)
• Belarusian: грош m (hroš)
• Bulgarian: грош m (groš)
• Czech: groš (cs) m
• Georgian: გროში (groši)
• German: Groschen (de) m, Grosz (de) m
• Macedonian: грош m (groš)
• Polish: grosz (pl) m
• Russian: грош (ru) m (groš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гро̏ш m

  Roman: grȍš (sh) m

• Slovak: groš (sk) m
• Slovene: groš m
• Ukrainian: грош (uk) m (hroš)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish grosz, from Medieval Latin denarius grossus.

Noun

grosz m (definite singular groszen, indefinite plural groszy, definite plural groszane)

1. grosz

Related terms

• groschen

References

• “grosz” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Czech groš, from Medieval Latin denarius grossus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔʂ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔʂ
• Syllabification: grosz
• Homophone: Grosz

Noun

grosz m animal (diminutive grosik, abbreviation gr)

1. grosz

Declension

Declension of grosz

	singular	plural
nominative	grosz	grosze
genitive	grosza	groszy
dative	groszowi	groszom
accusative	grosza	grosze
instrumental	groszem	groszami
locative	groszu	groszach
vocative	groszu	grosze

Derived terms

adjective

• groszowy

adverbs

• bez grosza przy duszy
• za grosze

nouns

• dusigrosz
• groszówka
• liczygrosz
• robigrosz
• wędzigrosz

Related terms

noun

• pięćdziesięciogroszówka

Further reading

• grosz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grosz in Polish dictionaries at PWN