Polish–English dictionary

zdobywać

(transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).

zdobywać punkty

To earn points in a game.

zdobywca

Someone who conquers.

zdolność

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

zdolny

Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]

zdominować

To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

zdrada

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

zdrada małżeńska

(narrowly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry

zdradliwy

Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.

zdradzać

(transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.

zdradzający partner

(idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

zdradzić

(transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.

zdradziecki

Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.

zdrajca

Someone who cheats.

zdrajczyni

Someone who cheats.

zdrętwieć

To immobilize with fright.

zdrobniały

(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

zdrobnienie

(grammar) Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.

zdrój

The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

zdrowa

In good health.

zdrowieć

(intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.

zdrowienie

A return to normal health.

zdrowy

In good health, unharmed.

zdrowy rozsądek

Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

zdrożeć

(intransitive, transitive) To increase in value.

zdruzgotany

Extremely upset and shocked.

zdrzemnąć

(intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.

zdubbingować

To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

zdublować

(transitive) To multiply by two.

zdumieć

To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise. [from 16th c.]

zdumieć się

(intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.

zdumienie

(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.

zdumiewać

To fill (someone) with surprise and wonder; to astonish, to astound, to surprise. [from 16th c.]

zdumiewać się

(intransitive) To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel; often followed by at.

zdumiewająco

In a wonderful manner.

zdumiewający

Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.

zdumiony

Astonished or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised (often with ensuing adpositions e.g. at, with, or by).

zdusić

(transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.

zdwojony

Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.

zdychać

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

zdymisjonować

(transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).

zdyscyplinowany

Possessing mental discipline.

zdyskredytować

(transitive) To harm the good reputation of (a person).

zdystansować się

To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.

zdystansowany

Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

zdywersyfikować

(transitive, intransitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.

źdźbło

The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

zdziałać

(obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.

zdziczały

Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

ździebko

A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.

zdziecinnienie

Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.

zdzierać

(transitive) To injure the skin of.

zdzierstwo

The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

zdziesięciokrotniać

To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

zdziesięciokrotnić

To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

zdziwić

(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

zdziwienie

The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.

zdziwiony

Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.

że

Introducing a clause that describes the information content of a preceding reporting noun.

ze strachu, że

For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

ze względu na

Caused by; resulting from; because of.

ze znajomościami

Having relationships; involved with others.

ze znakiem

(mathematics, computer science) Having both positive and negative varieties.

żeberka

A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

żeberko

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

żebrać

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

zebrać jeżyny

To gather or forage for blackberries.

zebrać myśli

(intransitive) To pause and become organized again.

żebractwo

The fact or action of begging.

żebraczka

A person who begs.

żebraczy

Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.

żebrak

A person who begs.

żebranie

The fact or action of begging.

żebranina

The fact or action of begging.

zebrany ręcznie

Picked by hand rather than by machinery.

żebro

(nautical) Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.

żebry

The fact or action of begging.

żebrzący

Depending on alms for a living.

żeby

To indicate a possible consequence of an event or action.

żeby nie

For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

żeby nie było

For the purpose of being recorded, especially when already known.

zecer

(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

zecerka

(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

zedrzeć

(transitive) To injure the skin of.

Zefir

(Greek god) The god of the West Wind.

zefirek

A light, gentle wind.

Zegar

(astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.

zegar piaskowy

A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows.

zegar słoneczny

A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.

zegarmistrz

A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains clocks.

zegarmistrzyni

A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains clocks.

zegarowy mechanizm sprężynowy

A mechanism powered by a coiled spring and regulated by some form of escapement; the power is transmitted through toothed gearwheels and used to drive a mechanical clock, toy, or other device.

żeglarka

In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.

żeglarski

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

żeglarstwo

Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise

żeglarz

In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.

żeglować

To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.

żeglowanie

Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise

żegnać się

To bid farewell or say goodbye.

żegnaj

Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.

Zeitgeist

The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

zejść

(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.

zejście

An instance of descending; act of coming down.

Zelandia

The largest island of Denmark.

zelant

One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.

żelatynowy

Of or referring to gelatin.

żelazawy

(chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of +2.

żelazny

Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)

żelazo

(not comparable) Made of the metal iron.

zelektryfikować

(transitive) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to.

żelka

A sugary, gelatinous material used to make candies.

zelota

One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.

zelować

(transitive) To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.

zelówka

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

zelżyć

(ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.

zemścić

(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.

zemsta

(uncountable) An act of revenge.

żeń-szeń

Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.

żenić się

(intransitive) To become married (to someone).

żeniec

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

zenit

(astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.

Zenon

A en given name.

żeński

Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.

żeńskość

The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.

żenujący

(colloquial) That causes one to cringe with embarrassment; embarrassing.

zenza

(nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.

zepsuć

(transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).

zepsucie

The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.

zepsuty

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

żer

That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.

żerdź

A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.

żeremie

A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

zerkać

To look briefly at (something).

zerknąć

To look briefly at (something).

zero

The digit zero.

żerować

(transitive, figurative) To exploit or victimize.

zerowy

(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

zerwać

(transitive, often, with off, or, out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.

zerwać się (z łóżka)

(transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.

zeskanować

(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

zesłanie

(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

zespajać

(transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.

zespawać

(transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.

zespawnować

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

zespoić

(transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.

zespół

A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.

zespuć się

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

ześrodkować

(ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

zestalać

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

zestalać się

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.