Polish–English dictionary

przyciągający

having to power to allure

przyciąganie

The tendency to attract.

przyciemniać

(transitive) To make something less bright.

przycinać

To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.

przycisk

A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

przyćmiony

Not bright or colorful.

przycumować

(transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.

przycupnąć

To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.

przyczepa

An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.

przyczepiać plakat

To affix a placard to.

przyczepiać się

(figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.

przyczepić plakat

To affix a placard to.

przyczepić się

(figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.

przyczepność

The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.

przyczółek

(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material

przyczyna

(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

przydać się

(intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.

przydatny

Having a practical or beneficial use.

przydawać się

(intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.

przydawka

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

przydech

(phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

przydomek

A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.

przydroże

The area on either side of a road.

przydrożny

Situated near the side of a road or path.

przydupas

A person who flatters in order to seek favour.

przydusić

(transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish

przydział

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

przydzielać

To set aside for a purpose.

przydzielić

To set aside for a purpose.

przygana

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

przygłup

(colloquial) A stupid person.

przygnębiający

Causing distress; upsetting; distressful.

przygnębienie

A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

przygnębiony

Sad and dispirited.

przygoda

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

przygotować drób do pieczenia na ruszcie

(cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.

przygotowania

(often, in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.

przygotowanie

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.

przygotowawczy

Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

przygotowywać

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

przygotowywać drób do pieczenia na ruszcie

(cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.

przygrywać

(transitive, music) To perform an accompanying part next to (another instrument or musician).

przyimek

(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.

przyjąć

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

przyjaciel

An especially close and trusted friend.

przyjacielski

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

przyjacielu

(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

przyjaciółka

An especially close and trusted friend.

przyjaciółko

(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

przyjaźń

(formal, literary) Friendship; friendliness.

przyjazna dusza

(idiomatic) Someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself.

przyjaźnić się

(transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

przyjaźnie

Friendly; in an amicable manner.

przyjazny

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

przyjechać

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

przyjęcie

(uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.

przyjemność

Joy; pleasure.

przyjemny

Pleasant to the senses or the mind; pleasing, satisfying, palatable.

przyjeżdżać

(intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.

przyjmować

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

przyjść

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

przykazanie

(archaic, or, jocular) Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.

przykleić

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

przyklejać

(dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

przykład

A person who serves as an example, or whose behavior is emulated by others.

przykładać się

(intransitive, informal) To give one's all in a particular effort; to perform admirably or forcefully.

przykładny

Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

przykro mi

(with an upward inflection) Indicates that the speaker is confused or requests information to be repeated; come again?, say again?, I beg your pardon?; see also Thesaurus:say again

przykrość

A distressing or dangerous situation.

przykry

(figuratively) Unpleasant.

przykryć

(transitive, idiomatic) To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.

przykrycie

A lid.

przykrywać

(military, law enforcement, transitive) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

przykrywka

A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

przykuć

(transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]

przykuśtykać

To walk lame, or unevenly.

przykuty do łóżka

Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.

przykuwać

(transitive, figurative) To command the attention of. [from c. 1600]

przylądek

(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

przylegać

(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

przylegający

Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

przyległość

A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.

przyległy

Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

przylepiać

(dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

przylepić

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

przylepność

The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.

przylepny

Having a tendency to cling.

przylgnąć

To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

przylistek

(botany) A basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.

przyłączać

(transitive) To come into the company of.

przyłączać się

(intransitive, now, _, rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]

przyłączyć

(transitive) To come into the company of.

przyłączyć się

(intransitive, now, _, rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]

przyłapany

(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.

przyłbica

A light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).

przymawiać

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

przymawiać się

(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

przymiarka

The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.

przymierze

(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

przymilny

Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.

przymiot

(countable) Something that differentiates a thing or person.

przymiotnik

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

przymiotnik na

(Japanese, _, grammar) An adjective that necessitates the copula な (-na) if followed by a noun.

przymiotnik な-

(Japanese, _, grammar) An adjective that necessitates the copula な (-na) if followed by a noun.

przymiotnikowy

(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.

przymknąć oko

(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

przymocować

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

przymówić się

(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

przymulony

Slowed or weakened, as by drink, sleepiness, etc.

przymus

Something that constrains; a restriction.

przymusić

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

przymusowy

Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.

przymuszać

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

przymykać oko

(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

przynęta

Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

przynieść

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

przynosić

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

przynosić pociechę

(transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

przypadek

(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

przypadkiem

Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning.

przypadkowo

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

przypadkowy

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional. [from 16th c.]

przypadłość

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

przypalać

(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it

przypalić

(transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it

przypalić się

(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

przypatrywać się

(transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).

przypiec

(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.

przypieczętować

(transitive) To place a seal on (a document).

przypiekać

(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.

przypieprzać się

(figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.

przypieprzyć się

(figurative) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.

przypisać

(transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.

przypisanie

(programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

przypisywać

(transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.

przypływ

The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore

przypochlebiać się

(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.

przypominać

To cause to recall; to evoke a memory or thought.

przypominający

Suggestive of an earlier event or times.

przypomnieć

To cause to recall; to evoke a memory or thought.

przypora

(architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.

przyporządkowanie

The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

przyporządkowywanie

The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

przypowieść

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

przyprawa

Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.

przyprawiać

(transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

przyprawiać muszkatem

(transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.

przyprawić

(transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

przyprawić muszkatem

(transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.

przyprowadzać

(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.