Polish–English dictionary

palcowanie

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

palcówka

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

palcowy

Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.

palec

(anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.

palec środkowy

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

palec u nogi

(automotive) An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.

palec u stopy

(automotive) An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.

palec wskazujący

(human, _, anatomy) The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.

palenie

The act of burning something with fire.

palenisko

A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

Palermo

A metropolitan city in Sicily, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Palermo.

palestra

(law, metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

Palestyńczyk

An inhabitant of Palestine or someone descending from that area.

Palestynka

An inhabitant of Palestine or someone descending from that area.

palestyński

Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.

paleta

A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

pali

A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism. [from 1690s]

paliatywny

(medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

palić

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

palić się

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.

paliczek

(skeleton, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.

palik

(Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.

palindrom

A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

palisada

(military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.

paliwo

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.

pallad

A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.

Palma

A city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca.

Palma de Mallorca

A city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca.

palnik

An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

palnik lutowniczy

A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

palność

The quality or state of being combustible

palny

Capable of burning.

palpitacja

An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.

palto

(countable, clothing) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

paluch koślawy

(pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.

Paluszka

A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl.

pała

(British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.

pałac

A large and lavishly ornate residence.

pałeczka

Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.

pałeczka okrężnicy

(often, attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

pałka

(military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.

pałkarz

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

pałować

(transitive) To hit with a club.

pamiątka

An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.

pamiątkowy

Serving to commemorate something.

pamięć

A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

pamięć podręczna

(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

pamiętać

(transitive, idiomatic) To hold (something) in the memory; to remember; also, to be mindful of or pay attention to (something); to consider; to note.

pamiętliwy

(figurative) Having no allowance for weakness.

pamiętnik

A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.

pamiętny

Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

pampers

(North America, Philippines, India) An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.

Pamplona

A city in Navarre, northern Spain, famous for the running of the bulls.

Pan

(Greek god) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.

pan młody

A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

pan na włościach

(historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.

pana

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

Panama

A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Panama.

pancernik

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

pancerniki

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

pancerny

(military) Equipped with armoured vehicles.

pancerz

(uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.

panda

A rare, black and white mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the ursid (bear) family.

pandemia

(epidemiology) A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.

pandemiczny

(epidemiology) Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.

pandemonium

A loud, wild, tumultuous protest, disorder, or chaotic situation, usually of a crowd, often violent.

pandit

(Hinduism) A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, and is regarded as knowledgeable in matters of genealogy and ritual. [from 19th c.]

pańdżabi

(uncountable) The main language spoken in the Punjab region, in eastern Pakistan and Northern India.

panegiryk

A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.

panel

A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

panenteizm

(philosophy, religion) A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe.

panewka

(firearms) A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns.

Pani

An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

pani domu

(plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

panichida

A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.

panicz

An unimportant or petty lord.

paniczna ucieczka

A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.

panie

Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.

panienka

Title used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired or possible to indicate her marital status with Miss or Mrs.

panieństwo

The state or characteristic of being a virgin.

panika

(uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

panikować

(informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.

panna

(often disparaging or sarcastic) Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.

panna młoda

A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

panna wodna

A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

panorama

A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.

panoramiczny

Of or pertaining to a panorama; with a wide view.

panować

(intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.

panowanie

The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.

panowie

(chiefly, _, historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK, _, law) an armigerous man ranking below a knight.

pański

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

państwa

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

państwo

a title used for a married couple before the surname or before the name of the husband.

pańszczyzna

The state of being a serf.

pantalony

(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]

panteizm

(religion) The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.

pantera

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

pantofel

(figuratively, derogatory) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.

pantomima

A pantomime actor.

pantomimik

A pantomime actor.

pantomimista

A pantomime actor.

papaja

A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.

paparazzi

A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.

paparazzo

A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.

papier

Made of paper.

papier do dupy

(North America, informal, mildly, vulgar, offensive, or, derogatory) An annoying, contemptible, or worthless person.

papier firmowy

Paper marked with a letterhead.

papier wartościowy

(finance, often, in plural) A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock or any of various classes of bond.W

papieros

A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.

papierowy

Made of paper.

papiery

(slang) Money.

papieski

(Christianity) Pertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.

papiestwo

(usually) The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

papka

(uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

papkowaty

Like paste, sticky.

papla

(idiomatic, often, derogatory) A person who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.

paplać

(intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.

paplanie

Idle talk; senseless prattle

paplanina

(now, rare) Noisy, rapid talk; babble. [from 17th c.]

papranina

Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

paproć

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

papryka

(North America, Philippines) Any of several bell-shaped varieties of Capsicum annuum, an edible, sweet, generally mild (not spicy) fruit, originating in the New World.

papryka ostra

(UK, US, Ireland, and, Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.

papryka roczna

(Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore) The non-spicy fruit of the above plants, such as the bell pepper.

paprykowy

Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.

Papua

The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.

papugować

(transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.

papużka

Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions. [from 16th c.]

papużka falista

A species of small green parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.

papużka nierozłączka

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

papużki nierozłączki

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

par

A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

para

Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.

para pałeczek

(countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

para wodna

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

parabola

A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

paraboliczny

(chiefly, mathematics) Of, or pertaining to, or in the shape of a parabola or paraboloid.

paracetamol

(North America) A white crystalline compound used in medicine as an anodyne to relieve pain and reduce fever.

parada

A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.

parada samochodowa

A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.

paradny

(figuratively) Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.

paradoksalny

Having self-contradictory properties.

parafernalia

(archaic, family, _, law) Objects that a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.

parafialny

Pertaining to a parish.

parafianin

A member of a congregation.

parafianka

A member of a congregation.

parafiański

(derogatory) Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

parafina

(petrochemistry, organic compound) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.

parafinować

To impregnate or treat with paraffin.

parafka

(US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.