Czech–English dictionary

zabít elektrickým proudem

(transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.

zabití

The act of killing.

zabití z nedbalosti

(law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.

žabka

(musical instrument) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.

žabky

(usually, in the plural, Australia) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.

zablácený

Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.

záblesk

A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.

zablokování

(road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.

zablokovat

(transitive) To create a blockade against.

zabodnout

(transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

zábor

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

zabouchnutý

In love.

zábradlí

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

zábrana

A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

zabránit

(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

zabřednout do bahna

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

zabrnkat

(ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

zabručení

A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

zabručet

(intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.

žábry

(zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.

zabukovat

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

zabývat se

(transitive, obsolete) To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard.

začarovat

(transitive) To cast a spell upon.

začátek

The initial portion of some extended thing.

začervenat se

(intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.

Zachariáš

A en given name, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

zacházení

The process or manner of treating someone or something.

zacházet

To handle someone or something in a rough way.

zachechtání

A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.

zachechtat se

(intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

zachmuřený

Despondent; moody; sullen.

záchod

A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.

záchodová mísa

A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.

zachování

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

záchrana

An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

záchranář

A person who rescues someone or something.

záchranářka

A person who rescues someone or something.

zachránce

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

zachráněné věci

The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.

zachránit

To save from any violence, danger or evil.

záchranný člun

(nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).

zachraňování

The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.

zachrochtání

The snorting cry of a pig.

zachrochtat

(intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.

záchvat

A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

záchvat bolesti

(often, in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.

záchvat vzteku

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

zachvění

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

záchvěv

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

zachytit

(transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]

zachytit se

To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.

začínat

(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

začít

(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

zacitovat

(transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.

žačka

(dated, _, except in, _, UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

začlenit

(transitive) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

záclona

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

zácpa

An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.

záď

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

záda

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

zadák

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

zadaná

(informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

zadaný

(informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

zadarmo

Without paying; free.

žádat

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

zadávat subdodavatelské zakázky

(chiefly, US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

zadek

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

zadní

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

zadní část

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

zadní kulisa

A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.

žádný

Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.

žádný problém

No apology is necessary; think nothing of it (said in response to an expression of regret).

žadonit

(ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

zadopatrový

(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).

žádost

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

žádostivý

Distastefully keen or desirous, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious.

žádoucí

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

zadrhávat

To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.

zádrhel

(informal) A minor obstacle or setback.

zadrnčet

(ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.

zadržet

(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.

zadržovací právo

(legal) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

zadržovat

(transitive, law enforcement) To put under custody.

zadumaný

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

zádumčivý

Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

zadunění

The sound of a dull impact.

zadunět

(intransitive) To make the sound of a dull impact.

zadusit

(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

zafňukání

The act of snivelling.

záhada

Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.

záhadně

In a mysterious manner.

záhadný

Pertaining to an enigma.

zahájit

(transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.

zaháknout

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

zahaleč

(informal, derogatory) A lazy and slovenly or obese person.

zahálet

To be lazy, waste time.

zahalit

(transitive) To conceal as with a veil.

zahálka

The state of being idle; inactivity.

zahanbení

Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.

zahanbený

(chiefly, of someone in trouble and undergoing punishment for doing something wrong) Feeling shame or guilt.

zahanbit

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

žahavec

(zoology) Any of various invertebrate animals, such as jellyfish, hydras, sea anemones, corals and formerly sponges and ctenophores that belong to the phylum Cnidaria. [from 19th c.]

zahihňat se

To laugh or giggle in a somewhat subdued or restrained way, as from nervousness or poorly-suppressed amusement.

záhlaví

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

zahlcení

An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.

zahlédnout

To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.

zahloubaný

Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.

zahltit

(transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.

zahlušit

(transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.

zahnout

(transitive) To turn past a boundary.

záhon

A garden plot.

zahořklý

Tasting or smelling rancid.

zahoukat

(intransitive) Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

zahradnice

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

zahradnická lopatka

A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [from 1660s]

zahradnický košík

(chiefly, British) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening

zahradnictví

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

zahradník

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

zahraničí

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. [from 1350–1470]

zahřát

(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

zahrát karambol

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

Záhřeb

The capital and largest city of Croatia.

zahřmění

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

zahřmět

(intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.

zahrnout

(figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.

zahrnovat

(now, _, rare) To include, comprise; to contain. [from 14th c.]

záhumenek

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

záhy

Soon; in a little while.

záhyb

(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

zahýkání

The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.

zahynout

(intransitive) To die; to cease to live.

zainteresovaný

Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity).

Zair

(historical) Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997.

zajatec

Any person held against their will.

zajatkyně

Any person held against their will.

zajatý

Held prisoner; not free; confined.

zaječení

A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

zaječet

(intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

zaječice

A female hare.

zájem

(countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

zájemce

(law) A party to a suit or litigation.

zajeté koleje

(figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

zajetí

The state of being captive.

zajíc

(uncountable) The meat from this animal.

zajíkat

(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

zajímat

(obsolete, often, _, impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

zajímavost

The state or quality of being interesting.

zajímavý

Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.

zajiskřit

Of light, etc.: to gleam, to sparkle.

zajisté

An emphatic affirmative answer; of course.