Polish–English dictionary

po trochu

A small amount at a time

po trzecie

In the third place; third in a row.

po wsze czasy

(duration) For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.

pobić

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

pobierać

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

pobierać opłatę

To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

pobieranie

A file transfer to a given computer or device from a remote one through a network connection.

pobieżny

Hasty or superficial.

poblask

The light given off by a glowing object.

pobliski

Adjacent, near, close by.

pobliże

Proximity; the state of being near.

pobłażliwość

The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.

pobocze

The area on either side of a road.

poboczny

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:

pobojowisko

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

pobór

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

poborowy

Drafted into a military service or similar.

pobożne życzenie

(idiomatic, psychology) The formation of beliefs based on an outcome that aligns with one's desires or hopes, while disregarding evidence, rationality, or reality.

pobożność

(uncountable) Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.

pobożny

(religion) Following the precepts of a religious practice; respecting and revering God and his authority.

pobrać

(transitive, computing) To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.

pobrać opłatę

To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

pobrudzić

(transitive) To ingrain grime or dirt which is difficult to remove into (something); also (more generally) , to make (something) dirty; to soil.

pobrzask

The light given off by a glowing object.

pobudzać

(transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.

pobudzenie

Sexual arousal.

pobudzić

(transitive) To sexually stimulate.

pobudzony

(archaic) Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.

pobyt

The state of living in a particular place or environment.

pocałunek

A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

pocenie się

The action or process of perspiring.

pochlebca

A person who flatters in order to seek favour.

pochlebczyni

Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service.

pochlebstwo

An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.

pochłanający

Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

pochłaniać

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]

pochłaniacz

Anything which absorbs. [First attested in the early 18th century.]

pochłanianie

The act or process of absorbing or of being absorbed as,

pochłonąć

(transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]

pochmurność

Of the sky, weather, etc.: the state of being cloudy.

pochmurny

Covered with or characterised by clouds.

pochód

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

pochodnia

A torch or other burning stick with a flame at one end.

pochodny

Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.

pochodzenie

Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.

pochować

To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.

pochówek

The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.

pochromować

(transitive) To plate with chrome.

pochrzyn

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

pochwa

The sheath of a sword.

pochwalać

(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

pochwalić

To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

pochwalny

Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

pochwała

An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.

pochwowy

(relational) Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

pochylać się

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

pochylenie

The state or quality of being slanted.

pochylić się

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

pochyłość

A slant or slope.

pociąg

A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel. [from 19th c.]

pociągać

(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

pociągać (za sobą)

(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.

pociągać nosem

(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.

pociągać za sobą

(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

pociągający

having to power to allure

pociągnąć

(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.

pociągnąć za sobą

(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

pociągnięcie

(golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.

pocić

Having a tendency to sweat.

pocić się

(intransitive) To emit sweat.

pociecha

A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

pociemniać

To make (something) brown; to brown.

pocieszać

(transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

pocieszający

Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.

pocieszenie

The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.

pocieszyć

(transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

pocieszyciel

A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

pocieszycielka

A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

pocisk

(historical) Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.

pociskać

(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.

pocisnąć

(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.

poćwiartować

(transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

począć

(obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.

początek

The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

początkowo

At the beginning.

początkowy

In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.

Poczdam

A town in Buffalo City municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

poczęcie

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.

poczernieć

(intransitive, ergative) To become black.

poczerwienić

(transitive) To make red or redder.

poczerwienieć

(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.

poczęstować

(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. [from 16th c.]

poczta elektroniczna

(uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.

poczta pantoflowa

An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.

pocztówka

(post) A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically used for sending messages by mail without the need for an envelope.

pocztowy

Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

poczuć

(transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

poczucie

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

poczucie klęski

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

poczucie własnej wartości

Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.

poczwara

A bizarre or whimsical creature.

poczwarka

The pupa of a butterfly or moth, particularly bare and hanging or girdled, as opposed to enclosed in a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.

poczwarzać

(transitive) To multiply by four.

poczwórny

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

poczworzyć

(transitive) To multiply by four.

poczytalność

The condition of being sane.

pod

Lower in spatial position than.

pod górę

Up a slope, towards higher ground.

pod klucz

Ready to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture).

pod nogami

Under one's foot or feet.

pod nogi

Under one's foot or feet.

pod publiczkę

(intransitive) To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.

pod warunkiem, że

Only if (the stipulation that follows is true).

pod wodą

(not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.

pod wrażeniem

Having or showing awe.

podać

(transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

podać się za

To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately). [(usually) with to (+ infinitive)]

podać sobie dłonie

(intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.

podarek

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

podarować

(ambitransitive) To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.

podarunek

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

podatek

(chiefly, _, historical) A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.

podatniczka

A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax.

podatnik

A person who is subject to, liable for, or pays tax.

podatność

(mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility

podatny

Able to be chemically or biologically degraded.

podawać

(transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

podawać się za

To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately). [(usually) with to (+ infinitive)]

podbiał

An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.

podbić

To defeat in combat; to subjugate.

podbijać

To defeat in combat; to subjugate.

podbijak

(music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.

podbój

An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

podboju

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

podbródek

The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

podburzać

(transitive) To goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions.

podburzający

Tending to inflame or provoke somebody.

podburzanie

A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.

podburzyć

(transitive) To goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions.

podcast

A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

podchmielony

(informal, slang) Slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.

podchwytliwy

Hard to deal with, complicated.

podcierać

(ambitransitive) To clean (the anus and buttocks) after defecation.

podczas

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

podczas gdy

While on the contrary; although; whereas.

podczerwień

(uncountable) The electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation, having a wavelength between 700 nm and 1 mm.

podczerwony

Having a wavelength in the infrared spectrum.

poddać

(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.]

poddać kwarantannie

(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.

poddać się

(transitive) To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).