ochrona

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ochrona"

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *o(b)xorna.[1][2] By surface analysis, deverbal from ochronić.[3] First attested in 1588.[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔˈxrɔ.na/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ɔˈxrɔ.na/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔna
  • Syllabification: o‧chro‧na

Noun

ochrona f

  1. protection (act of making safe or removing danger) [+ przed (instrumental) = from what]
    Synonym: zabezpieczenie
  2. (collective) protection; bodyguard (person or group of people performing this act)
  3. protection (object that provides such protection) [+ przed (instrumental)] or [+ przed (instrumental) = from what]
    Synonym: zabezpieczenie
  4. (obsolete) protection; orphanage; shelter, asylum, refuge (institution providing a safe place, especially one for orphans)

Declension
Declension of ochrona
singular
nominative ochrona
genitive ochrony
dative ochronie
accusative ochronę
instrumental ochroną
locative ochronie
vocative ochrono

Derived terms
adjective
nouns
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ochrona is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 19 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 57 times, making it the 1134th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “ochrona”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “ochrona”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ochronić”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ochrona”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “ochrona”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 308

Further reading
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