niebo

See also: niebò

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish niebo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɲɛbɔ]
  • Syllabification: nie‧bo

Noun

niebo n

  1. sky (atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen)
  2. (religion) heaven (abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust)
  3. (anatomy) palate (roof of the mouth)
  4. vault of a bread oven
  5. canopy over a bed

Further reading

  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “niebo”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 4, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 299

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nebò. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɲɛbɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɲɛbɔ/

Noun

niebo n (related adjective niebieski)

  1. sky; heaven
    Synonyms: niebiosa, niebie

Derived terms

nouns
nouns
  • niebieskość

Descendants

  • Masurian: niebo
  • Polish: niebo
  • Silesian: niebo

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish niebo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.bɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.bɔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛbɔ
  • Syllabification: nie‧bo

Noun

niebo n

  1. sky (atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen)
    Synonyms: błękit, firmament, niebiosa, nieboskłon
  2. (religion) heaven (abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust)
    Synonyms: Królestwo Niebieskie, niebiosa, raj
    Coordinate term: piekło
    Alternative form: Niebo
  3. (religion) God
    Synonyms: Bóg, Najwyższy, niebiosa, Opatrzność, Stworzyciel, Stwórca, Wiekuisty, Wszechmocny
    Alternative form: Niebo
  4. (figuratively) heaven (bliss, extreme happiness or pleasure)
    Synonym: raj
  5. (obsolete, figuratively) sky (part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.)
  6. (Middle Polish) sky; Further details are uncertain.
    • 1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius, page 2:
      Coelum, [...] Der hymmel. Nyebo.

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
adverbs
interjections
nouns
particles
phrases
  • dziury w niebie nie będzie
  • niebo otworzyło się
  • wielkie nieba
verbs
verbs
  • być zawieszony między niebem a ziemią impf
  • nie spaść z nieba pf, nie spadać z nieba impf
  • niebo płacze impf
  • poruszyć niebo i ziemię pf
  • przychylić nieba pf, przychylać nieba impf
  • spaść jak grom z jasnego nieba pf, spadać jak grom z jasnego nieba impf
  • spaść z nieba pf, spadać z nieba impf
  • wołać o pomstę do nieba impf

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), niebo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 2 times in essays, 33 times in fiction, and 20 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 65 times, making it the 1010th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “niebo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 280

Further reading

  • niebo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • niebo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “niebo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • NIEBO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.04.2016
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “niebo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “niebo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “niebo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 257
  • niebo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish niebo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɛbɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbɔ
  • Syllabification: nie‧bo

Noun

niebo n (related adjective niebieski)

  1. sky (atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen)
  2. (religion) heaven (abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust)

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
  • niebostōmpiynie

Further reading

  • niebo in dykcjonorz.eu
  • niebo in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “niebo”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 101
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “ńebo”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 456
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