zarno tam

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Phonetic reduction and ellipsis of zarwano tam diablu! (literally “it was taken to the devil!”). Compare Masovian Polish a rwan diabłu.

Pronunciation

Interjection

zarno tam

  1. (Southern Greater Poland) yeah right! you got another thing coming! I don't care!

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “zarno-tam!”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 32
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