zaś

See also: zas and zás

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of zasię. Compare Czech zase and Kashubian zôs. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɕ/, /ˈzɒɕ/

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• Rhymes: -aɕ
• Syllabification: zaś

Particle

zaś

1. (literary, contrastive or elaborative) meanwhile, whereas, while, rather than

   Synonyms: natomiast, tymczasem, za to

2. (literary) earlier
3. (literary) after, afterwards; thereupon

   Synonyms: potem, później

4. (colloquial, dialectal) used with some conjunctions for expressiveness

Adverb

zaś (not comparable)

1. (Middle Polish) just; again

Derived terms

adverb

• na zaś

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zaś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 55 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 178 times, making it the 326th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• zaś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zaś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “ZAŚ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.03.2010
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[2]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[3]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaś”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 303

Silesian

Etymology

Clipping of Old Polish zasię.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɕ/
• Rhymes: -aɕ
• Syllabification: zaś

Adverb

zaś

1. again

   Synonyms: juzaś, zasik

Particle

zaś

1. meanwhile, whereas, while

Further reading

• zas in dykcjonorz.eu
• zaś in silling.org