Polish–English dictionary

czepiec

A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.

czepliwość

The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.

czereśnia

The wood of a cherry tree.

czermień błotna

A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.

czerń

The state or quality of being black in colour.

czerniak

(oncology, disease) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

czerniak złośliwy

(oncology, disease) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

czernić

(transitive, causative) To make dirty.

czernieć

(intransitive, ergative) To become black.

czerpak

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

czerstwy

Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy#Adjective.

czerw

A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]

czerwiec

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

czerwiec kaktusowy

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).

czerwień

(card games) A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

czerwienić

(transitive) To make red or redder.

czerwienić się

(intransitive) To become red or redder.

czerwienieć

(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.

czerwienienie

An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.

czerwona kredka

Red crayon.

czerwona lampka

(informal) A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.

czerwona lampka ostrzegawcza

(informal) A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.

czerwonak

(countable) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

czerwonawy

Somewhat red.

czerwonka

(pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

czerwoność

(uncountable) The state or quality of being red.

czerwony

(tincture) In blazon, of the colour red.

czesanie

The act of brushing something.

cześć

(chiefly, Commonwealth, informal) goodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email or after writing a comment.

część ostrza noża opierająca się o koniec rękojeści

The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.

część semantyczna

(linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.

częściowa erekcja

(slang) A partial erection of the penis.

częściowo

To a partial degree or extent, incompletely.

czeski

Of, or relating to Bohemia or its language. [from 16th c.]

czeski piłkarz

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

czesne

An amount charged for a privilege.

często

(informal) Often; frequently.

częstokół

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

częstość

(uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.

częstoskurcz

(medicine, cardiology) A rapid resting heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute; palpitations. [from 19th c.]

częstotliwość

Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

częstować

(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.]

częsty

Done or occurring often; common.

Czeszka

(countable) A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.

czirliderka

(chiefly, US) A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.

Czirokezi

An indigenous North American people.

czit

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

czitowanie

An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.

czkać

(intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.

czknąć

(intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.

człapień

A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates motion.

człekokształtny

Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.

człon

(mathematics) A portion.

członek

One who belongs to a group.

członkini

One who belongs to a group.

członkostwo

(math) The fact of being a member of a set.

człowieczeństwo

(uncountable) The human condition or nature.

człowieczy

(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

człowiek

The genus Homo.

człowiek interesów

A man in business, one who works at a commercial institution.

człowiek jaskiniowy

An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

człowiek renesansu

A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

człowiek wolny

(usually, _, historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.

człowieku

Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.

czochrać

(transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.

czochranie

(slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.

czołem

A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

czołg

A closed container for liquids or gases.

czołgać się

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

czołgista

(military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.

czołgistka

(military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.

czołobitny

(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

czołówka

(idiomatic, by extension, often with "on the") The forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field.

czołowy

(anatomy) Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.

Czop

A city in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.

czopek

(anatomy) Any of the photoreceptor cells in the retina that are responsible for colour vision in relatively bright light.

czort

An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil. [from 10th c.]

czosnek

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

czosnek szczypiorek

A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

czterdzieści

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

czternaście

The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.

czternaścioro

The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.

czternasty

The ordinal form of the number fourteen.

czterolatek

A person who is four years old.

czterolatka

A person who is four years old.

cztery

(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

czub

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

czubek

The top piece or part of any of various things.

czuć

(intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.

czuć odrazę

(transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

czuć się

(intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.

czucie

A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.

czujnik

A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

czujność

The quality of being alert or on the alert.

czujny

Attentive; awake; on guard.

czule

In an affectionate manner.

czulić się

(intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.

czułe miejsce

(idiomatic) A sentimental fondness or affection.

czułek

An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.

czułość

The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.

czuły

Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.

czum

A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.

czuwaliczka jadalna

A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

czuwanie

An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.

czwartek

The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.

czwartorzęd

(geology) The geological period of the Cenozoic Era immediately following the Tertiary. It is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.

czwarty

The ordinal form of the number four.

czworaczek

One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.

czworakować

(transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.

czwórka

(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.

czworo

A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

czworoboczny

Having four sides.

czworobok

(geometry) A polygon with four sides.

czworokąt

A sex act between four people.

czworokątny

Having the shape of a quadrangle; in the shape of a quadrangle.

czy

An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

czy ... czy

Introduces a disjunctive adverbial clause qualifying the main clause (with correlative or).

czyj

(interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

czyli

(idiomatic, conjunctive) In the sense of.

czyn

(countable) Something done, a deed.

czyn niedozwolony

(law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from late 16th c.]

czynel

(percussion instrument) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

czynić

(transitive) To perform; to execute.

czynić hetmanem

(chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.

czynić niejasnym

(intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.

czynić złożonym

(transitive) To make more complex; to complicate.

czynne prawo wyborcze

(US) The right of women to vote.

czynnik

An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.

czynność

(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.

czynszówka

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

czyrak

A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

czyścić

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

czyściec

(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.

czystej krwi

Of purebred ancestry.

czystka

A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.

czystość

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

czystota

The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.

czysty

Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.

czyszczenie

(archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

czytać

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

czytanie

A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.

czytelniczka

A person who reads a publication.

czytelnie

In a manner that is legible, in a manner that is readable, readably.

czytelnik

A person who reads a publication.

czytelny

Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.

czytnik

Any device that reads something.

czyżby

(informal) Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism.

dąbrowa

(countable) A wood populated with oak trees.

dąbrówka

A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

dąć

(intransitive) To produce an air current.