materiał

See also: material, Material, and materiál

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Material.[1][2] First attested in 1743.[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maˈtɛ.rjaw/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛrjaw
  • Syllabification: ma‧te‧riał

Noun

materiał m inan (diminutive materialik, related adjective materiałowy, abbreviation mat.)

  1. material (substance with given qualities)
  2. material (something out of which something else is made) [+ na (accusative) = for what]
    Synonym: tworzywo
  3. material (cloth of fabric)
    Synonym: materia
  4. material (collcetion of knowledge and facts of a given field) [+ do (genitive) = to/for what]
  5. (colloquial) material (person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity) [+ na (accusative) = what kind of material]
    Synonym: kandydat
  6. (chiefly in the plural) supply; material (office or school item such as a pen)
  7. material (text to be printed)
  8. (law, in some collocations) material (incriminating information)

Declension
Declension of materiał
singular plural
nominative materiał materiały
genitive materiału materiałów
dative materiałowi materiałom
accusative materiał materiały
instrumental materiałem materiałami
locative materiale materiałach
vocative materiale materiały

Derived terms
adjective
nouns
adverb
  • materiałowo

Descendants
  • → Kashubian: materiôł

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), materiał is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 78 times in scientific texts, 27 times in news, 72 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 294th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “materiał”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “materiał”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. Ewa Rodek (26.11.2019) “MATERIAŁ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. Ida Kurcz (1990) “materiał”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 237

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