porównanie

See also: pòrównanié and porōwnanie

Polish

Etymology

From porównać + -anie. First attested in 1500–1547.[1] Compare Kashubian pòrównanié and Silesian porōwnanie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ.ruvˈna.ɲɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pɔ.rovˈna.ɲe/, /pɔ.rovˈnɒ.ɲe/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: po‧rów‧na‧nie

Noun

porównanie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of porównać; comparison (act of comparing or the state or process of being compared)
  2. (countable) comparison (evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other)
  3. (countable, rhetoric) simile (figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, in Polish typically formed with the words jak, niby, niż)
  4. (countable, Middle Polish) equinox (one of two times in the year when the length of the day and the night are equal)
    Synonym: równonoc
  5. (uncountable, Middle Polish) equality (state of being equal)
    Synonym: równość

Declension

Derived terms

particles
phrases
  • nie ma porównania
prepositions
verbs
  • wytrzymać porównania pf, wytrzymywać porównania impf
adjective
noun
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), porównanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 23 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 59 times, making it the 1096th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “porównanie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “porównanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 407

Further reading

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