Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔbus
- Syllabification: o‧bóz
Noun
obóz m inan (related adjective obozowy)
- camp (outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures)
- camp (place where people live temporarily in primitive conditions) [with dla (+ genitive) ‘for whom’]
- Synonym: koczowisko
- obóz dla uchodźców ― refugee camp
- camp (base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
- camp (soldiers at such a base)
- camp (place where people are forcibly detained for various reasons)
- camp (people at such a place)
- camp (recreation consisting of a given group spending time of people outside their place of residence, at least for a few days, enabling them to combine rest with study or sport)
- camp (people participating in such recreation)
- camp (training intended for athletes, carried out to improve their physical condition and skills before sports competitions)
- Synonym: zgrupowanie
- camp (group of people with the same strong ideals, goals, or political leanings)
- Synonyms: stronnictwo, ugrupowanie
Declension
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Derived terms
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(verbs):
- rozbić obóz pf, rozbijać obóz impf
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obóz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 39 times in news, 17 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 636th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
Ida Kurcz (1990) “obóz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 303
Further reading
- obóz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- obóz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obóz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “OBÓZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.10.2008
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obóz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 497