ściana

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stěnà. First attested in 1398. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɕt͡ɕʲana/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɕt͡ɕʲana/ === Noun === ściana f (related adjective ścienny) (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) wall (each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure) (attested in Lesser Poland) wall (rampart of earth, stones etc.) (figuratively, attested in Greater Poland) wall (that which separates) (attested in Greater Poland) wall (divider of two estates) side (left or right part of something) (mining) wall (place in a mine where a mineral is extracted from a deposit) (attested in Greater Poland) wall (boundary, border) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: ściana Silesian: ściana === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “ściana”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “ściana”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “ściana”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN Ewa Deptuchowa, et al., editors (2023), “ściana”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk == Polish == === Alternative forms === ściena (Middle Polish) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish ściana. Sense 9 is a semantic loan from English wall. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ana Syllabification: ścia‧na === Noun === ściana f (diminutive ścianka, related adjective ścianowy or ścienny) wall (each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure) (Łowicz) wall (4-5 rural cubits (an elbow measured from the palm of an outstretched arm to the middle of the chest) of thread for the base or canvas - the length of the finished canvas is calculated for the walls) wall (vertical field acting as a boundary of some object) wall; face (very steep, almost vertical mountain slope) (geometry) wall; face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron) (anatomy, botany, zoology) wall (divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity) (mining) wall (exposed surface of the mineral deposit where it is being mined) (literary) wall (large, compact mass of something that looks like a vertical plane and makes passage difficult) (literary) wall (that which isolates and separates people socially) Synonym: mur (Internet) wall (personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user) (obsolete) border (division between nations) Synonym: granica (Middle Polish) side (left or right part of something; particular face of something) Synonyms: bok, strona ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ściana is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 26 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 4 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 96 times, making it the 660th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “ściana”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[7] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “ściana”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[8] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ściana”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “ŚCIANA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 27.09.2018 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ściana”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ściana”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “ściana”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 708 Halina Świderska (1929), “śćana”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 137 == Silesian == === Alternative forms === śćana (Steuer's Silesian Alphabet) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish ściana. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɕt͡ɕa.na/ Rhymes: -ana Syllabification: ścia‧na === Noun === ściana f wall ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === sciana in dykcjonorz.eu ściana in silling.org