budowa

See also: budową, bùdowa, bùdową, and bùdowã

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Ruthenian будо́ва (budóva).[1] First attested in the 18th century.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈdɔ.va/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔva
  • Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

Noun

budowa f

  1. building (act or process of building)
    Synonym: budowanie
    w budowie ― under construction
  2. (construction) construction site
    Synonyms: plac budowy, teren budowy
  3. build (system of elements comprising a whole)
    Synonym: struktura
  4. build (shape, look, and proportion of a body)
  5. building, construction (act of developing something)
  6. (obsolete) building, construction (that which is constructed)
    Synonym: budynek

Declension

Declension of budowa
singular plural
nominative budowa budowy
genitive budowy budów
dative budowie budowom
accusative budowę budowy
instrumental budową budowami
locative budowie budowach
vocative budowo budowy

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: bùdowa
  • → Silesian: budowa

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), budowa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 68 times in scientific texts, 62 times in news, 97 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 250 times, making it the 206th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “budowa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “budowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “budowa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 36

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish budowa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈdɔ.va/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔva
  • Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

Noun

budowa f

  1. construction (act of building a physical construction)
    Synonym: budowanie
    • 2012, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Bysuch s Reichu‎[1], →ISBN, archived from the original on 1 December 2021, page 82:
      A jak tam na zalonym w Wiśle rozbiyrali łojcowizna dziadkowa, bo tyn zalyw goczałkowicki budowali, to cegły s tego, dachówka i bale wziyni my do budowy masztalni s tym małym chlywem.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (construction) construction site
    • 2014, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Freedland‎[2], →ISBN, archived from the original on 30 November 2021, page 19:
      Wy na tyj budowie niy poradzicie normalnie robić?
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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