osypywać

== Polish == === Alternative forms === osypować (Middle Polish) === Etymology === From osypać +‎ -ywać. First attested in 1567. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ Syllabification: o‧sy‧py‧wać === Verb === osypywać impf (perfective osypać) (transitive, literary) to shower, to sprinkle (to cover some surface with a loose substance) [with instrumental ‘with what’] Synonym: obsypywać (transitive, literary) to cover (to appear in large quanities) Synonym: obsypywać (transitive, literary, often of plants) to shed; to lose; to drop (to lose certain parts due to them falling off from the whole) Synonym: obsypywać (transitive, literary) to shower (to cause a very large amount of something to go to someone or some place) [with instrumental ‘with what’] Synonym: obsypywać (transitive, botany, horticulture) to loosen the soil around a plant and cover it with this soil to protect it (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [with instrumental ‘with what’] Synonyms: obkopywać, obsypywać, okopywać (reflexive with się) to be sprinkled, to be showered (reflexive with się) to be shed (having broken away from something, to fall in large numbers to some ground) Synonym: obsypywać się (reflexive with się) to deform (to lose one's original shape due to fragments sliding or falling off) (reflexive with się, colloquial, of trees) to shed (to quickly lose all leaves or needles) [with z (+ genitive) ‘what leaves/needles’] (reflexive with się) to shower each other, to sprinkle one another [with instrumental ‘with what’] Synonym: obsypywać się (reflexive with się, of bees) to die en masse ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === osypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN osypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “osypować się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “osypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “osypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “osypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 880 Aleksander Saloni (1908), “osypywać”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎[1] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 338