władza

== Polish == === Alternative forms === włodza (Middle Polish) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish włodza, influenced by Czech vláda, Polish władać, and własny. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ad͡za Syllabification: wła‧dza === Noun === władza f (uncountable) power, authority (ability, possibility, or right to direct something) [with nad (+ instrumental) ‘over whom/what’] Synonyms: panowanie, rządy, władanie, władztwo, zwierzchnictwo, zwierzchność (countable) power, authority (body controlling an institution) Synonym: góra (uncountable) function (ability to move one's limbs) [with w (+ locative) ‘what limb’] Synonym: czucie (countable) function (ability to think, understand, feel and imagine) (countable) power, authority (strong influence exerted by something on a person or thing) [with nad (+ instrumental) ‘over whom/what’] Synonym: wpływ (uncountable) power, force Synonyms: moc, siła (countable, obsolete) power, authority (person with the right to direct) (countable, obsolete, Christianity) a higher echelon of angels. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), władza is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 63 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 179 times, making it the 324th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “władza”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “władza”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “władza”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Paweł Kupiszewski (26.02.2023), “WŁADZA”, 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), “władza”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “władza”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “władza”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 648