walka

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Czech válka. First attested in the 14th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /va(ː)lʲka/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /valʲka/, /vɒlʲka/ === Noun === walka f (related adjective waleczny) war (organized armed conflict) Synonym: wojna military service Synonym: wojna (attested in Greater Poland) battle; fight (general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement) (attested in Greater Poland) duel (arranged, regular combat between two private persons) reason for conflict battle; struggle agony (struggle that precedes death) argument, fight (attested in Greater Poland) game played on Easter in which one rolls Easter eggs ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: walka Silesian: walka === References === Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “walka”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish walka. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -alka Syllabification: wal‧ka === Noun === walka f (related adjective waleczny) (countable) battle, combat, fight (mutual use of force or weapons against one another) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’; or with przeciw or przeciwko (+ dative) ‘against whom’; or with między or pomiędzy (+ instrumental) ‘between whom’; in addition, with o or za (+ accusative) ‘for/over whom/what’] Synonym: starcie (countable, sports) fight; clash (arrange combat often for entertainment; arranged sports competition) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’] (countable) fight, combat (act of attempting to defeat an opponent in some dispute or contest) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’; or with przeciw or przeciwko (+ dative) ‘against whom’] Synonym: rywalizacja (uncountable) struggle, fight (act of attempting to remove undesirable phenomena or difficulties, to get something, or to help someone) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’ and o (+ accusative) ‘for/over what’] (uncountable) struggle, fight (act of attempting to win someone's favor) [with o (+ accusative) ‘for/over whom’] (uncountable, literary) struggle, fight (act of opposing forces of nature or general phenomena) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’] (uncountable) clash (contradiction, e.g. between differing or contending interests, views, purposes) (Lasovia) desire to pester or harm [with na (+ accusative) ‘towards whom’] Ma walkę na mnie. ― He wants to pester me. (Western Kraków) straw roller (roller made of straw dipped in clay) Hypernym: wałek (Southern Borderlands, Ukraine) house clay (clay mixed with straw and waste used to build peasant cottages) (uncountable, obsolete, biology) competition (fighting for resources between species in the same environment) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), walka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 48 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 70 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 218 times, making it the 256th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “walka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[15] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “walka”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[16] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “walka”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Paweł Kupiszewski (24.05.2021), “WALKA”, 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), “walka”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “walka”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “walka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 450 Jan Karłowicz (1911), “walka”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volumes 6: U—Ż, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 66 == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish walka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈval.ka/ Rhymes: -alka Syllabification: wal‧ka === Noun === walka f (related adjective waleczny) battle; fight (general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement) Synonym: bōj ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === walka in silling.org