parafia

== Polish == === Alternative forms === parafija, parachwija, parochwija (Middle Polish) parafja (pre-reform orthography (1936)) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παραφυία (paraphuía), as a Lutheran term with contamination from earlier parochia, a Catholic term. First attested in 1547. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /paˈra.fja/ Rhymes: -afja Syllabification: pa‧ra‧fia === Noun === parafia f (Christianity) parish (part of a diocese) (Christianity, colloquial) parish church Synonym: kościół parafialny (collective) parish (community attending that church; the members of the parish) parish office ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Kashubian: parafiô → Silesian: parafijŏ → Slovincian: parafjija === References === === Further reading === “parafia”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “parafia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Paweł Kupiszewski (28.01.2020), “PARAFIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “parafia”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “parafia”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “parafja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 53 parafia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego