sztępel

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Stempel. Doublet of stempel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʂtɛm.pɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmpɛl
  • Syllabification: sztę‧pel

Noun

sztępel m inan (archaic)

  1. stamp, die, what leaves an imprint
  2. pestle
  3. (firearms) gunstick, ramrod
    • 1680, Franciszek à Mesgnien Meninski, “sztępel”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum (in Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, Latin, German, Italian, French, and Polish), Vienna, column 1297:
      تفنك چبوغی tüfenk ćiubughy. Embolus, bacillus immisorius, virga stipatoria, quâ inculcatur farsum. Ladstecke / Ladstab. La bachetta. La baguette. Sztępel.
      gunstick

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: шо́мпал (šómpal)
  • Bulgarian: шо́мпол (šómpol)
  • Russian: шо́мпол (šómpol), ше́нпол (šénpol), ше́мпол (šémpol), шо́мпал (šómpal), шо́нпал (šónpal)
  • Ukrainian: шо́мпол (šómpol)

Further reading

  • sztępel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “шо́мпол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.