wyraz

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See also: wyraź

Polish

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Etymology

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Deverbal from wyrazić.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Czech výraz, Kashubian wërôz, Ukrainian ви́раз (výraz), and Silesian wyrŏz.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɘras
  • Syllabification: wy‧raz

Noun

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wyraz m inan (related adjective wyrazowy)

  1. utterance; word; term (basic unit of language)
    Synonym: słowo
  2. (chiefly in the plural) expression (statement expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.)
  3. expression (act of conveying content in art)
  4. expression (ability to evoke feelings in others)
  5. expression (facial appearance usually associated with an emotion)
  6. expression (manifestation of something)
    Synonyms: postać, przejaw
  7. (mathematics) expression (arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols)
  8. (obsolete) utterer
    Synonym: wyraziciel
  9. (obsolete) sound (manner in which a word sounds)
    Synonym: brzmienie
  10. (obsolete) understanding (meaning of a word)
    Synonym: znaczenie

Declension

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Derived terms

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adverbs
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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wyraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 31 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 92 times, making it the 692nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wyrazić”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wyrazić”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wyraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wyraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 703

Further reading

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