obok

== Polish == === Etymology === Univerbation of o + bok (“side”). First attested in 1621–1632. Compare Kashubian òbòk. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔbɔk Syllabification: o‧bok === Preposition === obok beside, next to, near [with genitive] Synonyms: koło, podle, przy besides, outside of [with genitive] Synonyms: oprócz, poza, prócz ==== Trivia ==== According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obok (adverb) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 22 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 104 times, making it the 597th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === Adverb === obok (not comparable) beside, next to, near [with genitive] Synonyms: blisko, w pobliżu Synonym: daleko === References === === Further reading === “obok”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “obok”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “obok”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “obok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obok”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 493