kontrola

Borrowed from German Kontrolle.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkontrola]

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kontrola f

1. inspection (the act of examining something, often closely)

   mít pod kontrolou ― to have under control

   dostat pod kontrolu ― to get under control

   získat kontrolu nad územím ― to gain control over the territory

   provést kontrolu ― to conduct a check

2. feature (in orienteering)

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

Borrowed from French contrôle.^[1][2] First attested in 1787.^[3] Compare Silesian kōntrola.

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈtrɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: kon‧tro‧la

kontrola f (related adjective kontrolny)

1. inspection (act of examining something, often closely)
   1. check-up (inspection at a doctor or mechanic)
2. (colloquial) control (authority or institution)

• → Kashubian: kòntrola

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kontrola is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 37 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 858th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• kontrola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kontrola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kontrola”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kontrola”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 455
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kontrola”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): /kontrǒːla/
• Hyphenation: kon‧tro‧la

kontróla f (Cyrillic spelling контро́ла)

1. control
2. inspection (authority)