chyba

Inherited from Old Czech chyba, from Proto-Slavic *xyba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxɪba]

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• Homophone: Chyba

chyba f (diminutive chybka or chybička)

1. fault
2. mistake, error

   dělat chyby ― to make mistakes

3. (computing) bug, error

• “chyba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “chyba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “chyba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xyba.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈxɨba/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈxiba/

chyba f

1. miss (unsuccessful hit)
2. difference, deviation
3. error, mistake
4. (especially after a negative) doubt

chyba

1. outside, beside, except

chyba

1. around, roughly, about

chyba

1. alas

• Czech: chyba

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “chyba”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• cheba (Podhale, Łącko, Zabrzeż)
• chiba (Podlachia, Tykocin, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania)

Inherited from Old Polish *chyba,^[1] from Proto-Slavic *xyba.^[2][3][4][5] By surface analysis, deverbal from chybić. First attested in the 16th century.^[6][7]

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• Rhymes: -ɘba
• Syllabification: chy‧ba

chyba

1. expresses confidence but not certainty; probably; I think, I guess
2. (Middle Polish or Podhale) delimiting particle; only, just, merely

   Synonyms: jedynie, tylko

   On ta dzieci ni ma, chyba jednę córkę. (Podhale)

   He doesn't have children, only one daughter.

Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.

chyba f (diminutive (dialectal) chybka)

1. (obsolete) error, mistake

   Synonyms: błąd, pomyłka

2. (obsolete) miss, failure
3. (Middle Polish) falsehood; trick, deception
4. (Western Kraków, Biecz, Lasovia, Podhale) loss; lack; damage; failure; defect

   Mam chybę w ûrodzaju. (Lasovia) ― I have a loss in my harvest.

   Mam chybę w gôspodarztwie. (Lasovia) ― I have a failure in my farm.

   Zrobiłeś mu chybę w majątku. (Lasovia) ― You made a failure in the estate.

   Chyba się stała. (Podhale) ― A failure happened.

chyba

1. (Middle Polish) denotes lack; without; except; barring [with genitive]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chyba is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 50 times in essays, 80 times in fiction, and 143 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 293 times, making it the 50th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[8]

• chyba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chyba in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “CHYBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.01.2012
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “chyba”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “chyba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “chyba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 311
• Jan Karłowicz (1900) “chyba”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, pages 212-213

Inherited from Old Polish *chyba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɪ.ba/

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• Rhymes: -ɪba
• Syllabification: chy‧ba

chyba

1. expresses confidence but not certainty; probably; I think, I guess
2. introduces a rhetorical question; I should think

chyba f

1. mistake, error

   Synonyms: brak, defekt, feler, gana, skaza, wada

• chyba in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xyba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxiba]

chyba f

1. fault
2. mistake, error
3. (computing) bug, error

• “chyba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025