sejm

Borrowed from Polish sejm.

sejm (plural sejms)

1. A political assembly or committee in Poland and the surrounding areas.

• Sejm

Inherited from Old Polish sejm, from Proto-Slavic *sъjьmъ.

• IPA^(key): /sɛjm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛjm
• Syllabification: sejm
• Homophone: Sejm

sejm m inan (related adjective sejmowy)

1. (government) lower house of a bicameral parliament

   Coordinate term: senat

   Hypernym: parlament

   1. lower house (total number of people who sit in the lower house of a parliament)
   2. lower house (building of the lower house of a parliament)
2. (government) parliament (legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers)

   Synonym: parlament

   1. parliament (total number of people who sit in a parliament)

   Synonym: parlament

   1. parliament (building of a parliament)

   Synonym: parlament

3. (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)

   Synonym: sejmik

• → English: sejm
• → Lithuanian: seĩmas
• → Romanian: seim
• → Russian: сейм (sejm)
• → Ukrainian: сейм (sejm)

• sejm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sejm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• sejm in PWN's encyclopedia