zjawisko

Polish

Etymology

From zjawić +‎ -isko. First attested in 1791.[1] Compare Kashubian zjawiszcze and Silesian zjawisko.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zjaˈvis.kɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iskɔ
  • Syllabification: zja‧wis‧ko

Noun

zjawisko n

  1. phenomenon (thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses)
    Synonym: fenomen
  2. phenomenon (fact or event considered very unusual)
    Synonym: fenomen
  3. apparition (unreal dream vision or delusion)
    Synonym: zjawa

Declension
Declension of zjawisko
singular plural
nominative zjawisko zjawiska
genitive zjawiska zjawisk
dative zjawisku zjawiskom
accusative zjawisko zjawiska
instrumental zjawiskiem zjawiskami
locative zjawisku zjawiskach
vocative zjawisko zjawiska

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjawisko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 58 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 391st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zjawisko”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zjawisko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 773

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