pociąg

== Polish == === Alternative forms === ciapong (childish or ironic, humorous) pocięg (Central Greater Poland) === Etymology === Deverbal from pociągać. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French train, English train, and German Zug. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French inclination. First attested in 1550. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕɔŋk Syllabification: po‧ciąg === Noun === pociąg m inan (diminutive (rare) pociążek, related adjective pociągowy, abbreviation poc.) train (mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport) Synonym: kolej Pociąg do Warszawy odjeżdża za godzinę. ― The train to Warsaw departs in an hour. inclination, predilection, proclivity, predisposition, penchant (condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards) Synonyms: popęd, skłonność (obsolete) animal-drawn vehicle [17th–19th c.] (obsolete) synonym of pociąganie (“pulling”) (act by which something is pulled) [17th–19th c.] (obsolete, hunting) wing rope (rope from the bird's wings, by pulling which the wings close) (Central Greater Poland, Podlachia, Tykocin, architecture) support (beam, not a thick beam under the rafters, lying on stands or stools, which also stand on another beam) Synonym: podciąg (Northern Greater Poland, Noteć) synonym of zaprzęg (“group of animals used to pull a vehicle”) (Middle Polish, construction, hapax legomenon) support traverse (traverse holding up a wooden construction) [16th century] (Middle Polish, birdwatching, hapax legomenon) net line (line that one pulls to close a fowler's net) [16th century] (Middle Polish, sailing, hapax legomenon) synonym of żagiel (“sail”) (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along; the sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars, and ropes) [16th century] ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “pociąg”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “pociąg”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish) pociąg in PWN's encyclopedia Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 311 Jan Karłowicz (1906), “pociąg”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 4: P, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 155 Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “ciąg”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna