polityka

• IPA^(key): (standard) /pɔˈli.tɨ.ka/
• IPA^(key): (colloquial; common in casual speech) /pɔ.liˈtɨ.ka/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /pɔˈli.tɨ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -ɨka
• Syllabification: po‧li‧ty‧ka

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολιτική (τέχνη) (politikḗ (tékhnē), “art of politics”).[1][2][3] First attested in 1588.[4]

polityka f (diminutive polityczka, related adjective polityczny)

1. politics (methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement)
2. politics (political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict)
3. politics (profession of conducting political affairs)
4. politics (skillful and orderly action to achieve specific goals)
5. policy (plan or course of action)
6. (obsolete) etiquette; politeness

   Synonym: etykieta

• → Kashubian: pòlitika
• → Masurian: politikä

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

polityka m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of polityk

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), polityka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 83 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 404th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

• polityka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• polityka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “POLITYKA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.02.2023
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “polityka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “polityka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “polityka”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 537
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “polityka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

Borrowed from German Politik.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈlitɨka/
• Rhymes: -itɨka
• Syllabification: po‧li‧ty‧ka

polityka f (related adjective polityczny)

1. politics (methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement)
2. ignition wire (wire for igniting the gunpowder in a mortar)

• polityka in silling.org
• Bogdan Kallus (2020) “polityka”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 362