staza

See also: stază, Stáza, -staza, -stazą, and stazą

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsta.za/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aza
  • Syllabification: sta‧za

Noun

staza f

  1. (pathology) stasis (slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls)
  2. (colloquial, medicine) tourniquet (tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb)
    Synonyms: opaska uciskowa, manszeta

Declension

Further reading

  • staza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stьdza (path), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *stiga, from Proto-Indo-European *stigʰ-eh₂.

Noun

stàza f (Cyrillic spelling ста̀за)

  1. path, way

Declension

Declension of staza
singular plural
nominative staza staze
genitive staze staza
dative stazi stazama
accusative stazu staze
vocative stazo staze
locative stazi stazama
instrumental stazom stazama

Further reading

  • staza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • staza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025