akcja

== Polish == === Alternative forms === akcyja (Middle Polish) akcya (pre-reform orthography (1816)) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin āctiō (“act of doing or making”). Noun sense 1 and noun sense 6 are semantic loans from German Aktion or French action. First attested in 1553. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈak.t͡sja/ Rhymes: -akt͡sja Syllabification: ak‧cja === Noun === akcja f (related adjective akcyjny) action, mission, campaign, operation (something done in order to accomplish something) [from 17th c.] Hypernym: działanie (military) action (combat) [from 17th c.] Hypernym: działanie (sports) attack (something done in order to gain an advantage) [from 20th c.] Synonyms: atak, ofensywa, szturm składna akcja ― a neat attack akcja ofensywna ― an offensive attack zainicjować akcję ― to initiate an attack (film, literature, theater, video games) action (fast-paced activity especially in literature, play acting, or film) [from mid 17th c.] akcja sceniczna ― stage plot akcja dramatyczna ― dramatic action gra akcji ― an action game akcja sztuki ― the action of a play film akcji ― an action film/movie akcja filmu ― the action of film (narratology) story arc (finance) share (financial instrument) [from 19th c.] (in the plural, finance) stock (shares collectively) [from 19th c.] (in the plural, by extension, finance) stock (power or influence of a person or organization) [from mid 19th c.] (obsolete) action, litigation, legal case [with o (+ accusative) ‘over what’ and przeciw (+ dative) ‘against whom’] [16th–20th c.] Synonyms: (Middle Polish) kauza, sprawa (obsolete) gesticulation, facial expression [17th–20th c.] (Middle Polish, except in set phrases, medicine) action, organ function [first half of 18th c.] Synonym: praca akcja serca ― heart action przyspieszenie akcji serca/wzmożona akcja serca ― increased heart rate ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: akcjô === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), akcja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 27 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 13 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 514th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === akcja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN akcja in Polish dictionaries at PWN