Czech–English dictionary

prášek

The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.

prašivina

(veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).

prašivý

Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

prásk

The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.

práskač

(slang) An informer, one who betrays their group.

praskat

To crackle, to make a crackling sound.

prasklina

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

prasklý

(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.

prasknout

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

prásknout do bot

To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.

prasknutí

An act or instance of bursting.

prastarý

Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.

praštěný

(slang) Mad, crazy, silly.

praštit

(informal) To strike heavily.

praštit sebou

(intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.

přát

(intransitive) To hope, to wish.

prát se

(intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

přát si

To want; to wish for earnestly.

přátelské vztahy

(formal, literary) Friendship; friendliness.

přátelský

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

přátelství

(formal, literary) Friendship; friendliness.

pratur

An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.

pravačka

One who is right-handed.

pravák

One who is right-handed.

pravda

The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

pravděpodobně

In all likelihood.

pravděpodobnost

(countable) The probability of something happening.

pravděpodobnostní

(mathematics, probability theory) Of, pertaining to, or derived using probability.

pravděpodobný

Likely or most likely to be true.

pravdivě

(manner) In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

pravdivost

(countable) Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.

pravdivý

Accurately depicting what is real.

pravdomluvnost

The quality of being truthful

pravdomluvný

Honest, and always telling the truth.

právě

Moments ago, only very recently.

pravěk

The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.

pravěký

(properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.

pravičák

One who believes in the politics or policies of the political right.

pravicový

(politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.

pravidelně

With constant frequency or pattern.

pravidelně navštěvovat

(transitive) To visit often.

pravidelnost

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular

pravidlo

A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.

pravítko

A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.

právní

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

právní prostředky nápravy

(legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

právnička

Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor. [from 14th c.]

právník

Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor. [from 14th c.]

právo

(transitive) To deprive someone of a franchise, generally of the right to vote.

pravobok

The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.

pravomoc

Scope or range of interest or control.

pravopis

(uncountable) Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.

právoplatný

By right; by law.

pravoslaví

The aggregate of the definitive elements of the Eastern Orthodox Church, such as its faith, worship, theology, and traditions.

pravoslavný

(Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.

pravost

The quality of being genuine; authenticity.

pravoúhlý

(geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.

pravověrný

(Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.

pravý

Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

praxe

Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

prázdná makovice

(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.

prázdniny

(chiefly, UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).

prázdnota

(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

prázdný

Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

pražec

(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

pražená kukuřice

(chiefly, uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

pražit

(transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.

pražský

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

prcek

A small child.

prchat

(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.

prchavost

The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out. (of things)

prchavý

Passing quickly; of short duration.

prchlivý

(of a person) Quick to become angry or violent.

prd

(countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.

prdlý

(slang) Mad, crazy, silly.

pře-

Above, or higher.

přeběhlík

One who defects.

přeborník

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

přebrodit

To cross a stream by walking through it.

přebytek

An excess, too much.

precedens

An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.

precedent

An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.

přecenění

(UK, pensions) The application of compound growth to the value of a pension benefit, specifically from the date of the member leaving the scheme (for example, moving to a different employer) to the date that the member starts receiving the benefit (typically retirement).

přecenit

To judge or calculate too highly.

přecházet

(football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

přechod

A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.

přechod pro chodce

(US) A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.

přechodná móda

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

přechodný

Transitional.

přechodný pobyt

A temporary residence.

přečin

(law, criminology, historical, _, in, _, UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony.

přečíslit

(transitive, stative) To be more in number than somebody or something.

přečíst

(transitive) To read completely.

přecitlivělý

Emotionally fragile, easily offended.

přečkat

(nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

preclík

(culinary) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.

přecpaný

Containing a dense pack or mass of something; teeming.

před

Before now, before the present time

před splatností

(of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.

před-

Before; earlier in time; beforehand.

předák

(management) The leader of a work crew.

předání

The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another.

předávkovat

(transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to someone.

předběhnout

(transitive) To run faster than.

předběžný

In preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory.

předbíhat

(transitive) To run faster than.

předčasný

Early; premature.

předchozí

(not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.

předchůdce

Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.

předchůdkyně

One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.

předčítač

A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.

předčítat

(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)

předefinovat

(transitive) To give a new or different definition to (a word).

předehra

(sex) The acts at the beginning of a (usually human) sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal.

předejít

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

předek

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.

předěl

(linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.

předělání

A major repair, renovation, or revision.

předělat

To do again.

předělávka

Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.

předem

At an earlier or preceding time.

předepisovat

(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).

predestinace

(theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.

předhánět

(transitive) To run faster than.

předhonit

(transitive) To run faster than.

predikát

(logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

predispozice

The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.

předkožka

(anatomy) The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.

předkrm

An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables.

předloktí

(anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

předložit

(transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

předložka

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

předmanželský

Before marriage; before getting married.

předměstí

A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.

předměstský

Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.

předmět

A distinct physical object.

předmluva

An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; especially, one written by another person (not the author of the work thus introduced).

přednášející

A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.

přednášet

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

přednášet (před soudem)

(ambitransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.

přednáška

(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

přednes

The manner of speaking or singing.

přední

(not comparable) Situated toward or at the front of something.

přední rozsocha

The upper front brow of a saddle.

přední sklo

(North America, Philippines) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.

přednost

The option to so select, and the one selected.

předpeklí

(Roman Catholicism, uncountable) A speculation, thought possibly to be on the edge of the bottomless pit of Hell, where the souls of innocent deceased people might exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, specifically those of the saints who died before the advent of Jesus Christ (who occupy the limbo patrum or limbo of the patriarchs or fathers) and those of unbaptized infants (who occupy the limbo infantum or limbo of the infants); (countable) the possible place where each category of souls might exist, regarded separately. [from 15th c.]

předpětí

(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

předpis

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.

předplacený

Paid for in advance.