socha

Inherited from Old Czech *socha meant “mast, pillar, column” and was derived from Proto-Slavic *soxa (“crotch of a tree, trunk ending with a branch stub”) with unsure origins.^[1] The current Czech and Slovak meaning derives from the fact such pillars in homes were ornamented with wood carvings.^[2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoxa]

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socha f (diminutive soška)

1. (sculpture) statue
2. (art, sculpture) sculpture (work of art)

   Socha malého chlapce. ― A statue of a little boy.

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

From Proto-Slavic *soxa, from Proto-Indo-European *sokh₂o-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian socha, Polish socha, Czech socha (“statue, sculpture”), Serbo-Croatian soha, and Ukrainian соха (soxa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔxa/

socha f (diminutive soška)

1. crotch of a tree
2. branched support pole

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “socha”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “socha”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Inherited from Old Polish socha, from Proto-Slavic *soxa.

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• Rhymes: -ɔxa
• Syllabification: so‧cha
• Homophone: Socha

socha f (diminutive soszka)

1. (agriculture) sokha
2. (wooden architecture) vertical forked post
3. (dialectal) Y-shaped tree trunk or branch
4. (Western Greater Poland, Przemyśl) pole of a well

• socha in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• socha in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “socha”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 28
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “socha”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 341

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *soxa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔxa]

socha f (relational adjective sošný or sochový, diminutive soška or sôška)

1. statue
2. sculpture (work of art)

• sochár
• sochársky
• sochárstvo
• sošne
• sošnosť

• “socha”, 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