budowa

Borrowed from Polish budowa.

• IPA^(key): [buˈdɔva]
• Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

budowa f

1. building, construction (act of developing something)
2. building; construction (closed structure with walls and a roof; that which is constructed)
3. entirety of constructions
4. construction (manner in which a building was built)
5. construction; structure; shape of an object

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “budowa”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 240

Borrowed from Old Ruthenian будо́ва (budóva).[1] First attested in the 18th century.[2]

• IPA^(key): /buˈdɔ.va/

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• Rhymes: -ɔva
• Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

budowa f

1. building (act or process of building)

   Synonym: budowanie

   w budowie ― under construction

2. (construction) construction site

   Synonyms: plac budowy, teren budowy

3. build (system of elements comprising a whole)

   Synonym: struktura

4. build (shape, look, and proportion of a body)
5. building, construction (act of developing something)
6. (obsolete) building, construction (that which is constructed)

   Synonym: budynek

• → Masurian: budowa
• → Kashubian: bùdowa
• → Silesian: budowa

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), budowa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 68 times in scientific texts, 62 times in news, 97 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 250 times, making it the 206th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

• budowa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• budowa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “budowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “budowa”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 226
• budowa in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from Polish budowa.

• IPA^(key): /buˈdɔva/
• Rhymes: -ɔva
• Syllabification: bu‧do‧wa

budowa f

1. construction (act of building a physical construction)

   Synonym: budowanie

   • 2012, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Bysuch s Reichu‎, →ISBN, archived from the original on December 1, 2021, page 82:

     A jak tam na zalonym w Wiśle rozbiyrali łojcowizna dziadkowa, bo tyn zalyw goczałkowicki budowali, to cegły s tego, dachówka i bale wziyni my do budowy masztalni s tym małym chlywem.

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2. (construction) construction site
   • 2014, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Freedland‎, →ISBN, archived from the original on 30 November 2021, page 19:

     Wy na tyj budowie niy poradzicie normalnie robić?

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