staza

See also: stază, Stáza, -staza, -stazą, and stazą

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.za/

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• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: sta‧za

Noun

staza f

1. (pathology) stasis (slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls)
2. (colloquial, medicine) tourniquet (tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb)

   Synonyms: opaska uciskowa, manszeta

Declension

Declension of staza

	singular	plural
nominative	staza	stazy
genitive	stazy	staz
dative	stazie	stazom
accusative	stazę	stazy
instrumental	stazą	stazami
locative	stazie	stazach
vocative	stazo	stazy

Further reading

• staza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stьdza (“path”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stiga, from Proto-Indo-European *stigʰ-eh₂.

Noun

stàza f (Cyrillic spelling ста̀за)

1. path, way

Declension

Declension of staza

	singular	plural
nominative	staza	staze
genitive	staze	staza
dative	stazi	stazama
accusative	stazu	staze
vocative	stazo	staze
locative	stazi	stazama
instrumental	stazom	stazama

Further reading

• “staza” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “staza” in Hrvatski jezični portal