kierownik

== Polish == === Etymology === From kierować + -nik. First attested in 1595. Compare Kashubian czerownik. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔvɲik Syllabification: kie‧row‧nik === Noun === kierownik m pers (female equivalent kierowniczka, related adjective kierowniczy) manager, head, leader, chief (person managing all or part of a company or institution or leading a team) (chiefly in the vocative) boss (term of address) Synonyms: dyrektor, zarządca (colloquial, humorous) driver (person operating a vehicle) Synonym: kierowca ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Belarusian: кіраўні́к (kirawník) → Ukrainian: керівни́к (kerivnýk) === Noun === kierownik m inan (colloquial) steering wheel Synonym: kierownica (Central Greater Poland, Near Masovian, Łukowiec, Jagodne, Łowicz, Kielce, Opatów County) front axle assembly (movable base of a front axle of a wagon into which stanchions are inserted) Synonym: rycząg ==== Declension ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kierownik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 30 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 95 times, making it the 662nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “kierownik”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “kierownik”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “kierownik”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “kierownik”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kierownik”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 330 Jan Karłowicz (1901), “kierownik”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 250 Halina Świderska (1929), “ḱerovńik”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 110