Polish–English dictionary

dobić do brzegu

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

dobitny

Characterized by emphasis; forceful.

dobór naturalny

(evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

dobosz

(musician) One who plays the drums.

doboszka

(musician) One who plays the drums.

dobowy

Relating to or lasting a nychthemeron (a period of 24 hours).

dobra

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

dobra robota

(idiomatic) Well done; congratulations!

dobra wola

A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.

dobrany

(figurative) Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.

dobre gospodarowanie

The prudent management or conservation of resources.

dobro

(business) Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold. [from 15th c.]

dobro wspólne

Mutual good, shared by more than one.

dobrobyt

The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

dobroć

(uncountable) Disposition to do good.

dobroczyńca

Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.

dobrodziejstwo

(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

dobrosąsiedzki

(British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.

dobrotliwy

kind and warmly courteous

dobrowolnie

In a voluntary manner.

dobrowolny

Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

dobry

In good health, unharmed.

dobrze

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

dobrze urodzony

Aristocratic.

dobytek

Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

dochód

(now, _, only, _, US) Proceeds; profits from business transactions. [from 15th c.]

dochody

Wages, money earned, income.

dochody brutto

Income generated before deducting expenses, taxes, insurance, etc.

dochodzenie

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

dochodzić

(intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

dociec

(ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove.

dociekać

(ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove.

dociekliwie

In an inquisitive manner; curiously.

dociekliwy

Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.

docierać

(idiomatic, of an idea) To occur to somebody; to be realized by.

doczepić

(transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended

dodać

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

dodać do znajomych

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

dodać otuchy

(transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

dodatek

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

dodatki

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

dodatkowa korzyść

A benefit received in addition to the normal benefits of holding a job, or, by extension, any relationship to the source of the benefit.

dodatkowo

By way of addition; in addition to; also.

dodatkowy

Supplemental or added to something.

dodawać

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

dodawać odwagi

To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

dodawać otuchy

(transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

dodawanie

(uncountable) The act of adding anything.

dodo

A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.

dogadzać

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

doglądać

(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

dogłębny

Thorough; comprehensive.

dogmat

An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.

dogmatyczny

Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.

dogmatyzm

The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

dogodny

Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.

dogodzić

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

dogorywać

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

dogrywka

(sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.

doić

(slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

dój

The act by which any animal is milked.

dojarka

(dated) A woman who works in a dairy.

dojarz

A man who works in a dairy, as:

dojazd

(also, figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.

dojechać

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

dojeżdżać

(intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

dojeżdżający

(US, UK, Canada) To and from work and home.

dojka

An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.

dojny

(dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.

dojo

(martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a hall or room used for such training.

dojrzałość

The state of being mature, ready or ripe; the prime state of productibility and self expression.

dojrzały

Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.

dojrzeć

(transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.

dojrzewający

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

dojrzewanie

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

dojrzewanie płciowe

The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

dojść

(intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

dokąd

In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).

dokąd nie

In, at or to any place (that); anywhere.

dokąd tylko

In, at or to any place (that); anywhere.

dokądkolwiek

In, at or to any place (that); anywhere.

dokądś

To an uncertain or unspecified location.

dokądże

(interrogative) Where ever; an emphatic form of where.

dokazywać

(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]

doker

A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

dokładać się

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

dokładka

A second portion of the same thing, usually of food; seconds; refill.

dokładnie

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

dokładność

The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness

dokładny

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

dokonać

(transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

dokonać abordażu

(transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.

dokonać zrzutu

To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

dokonanie

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.

dokonany

Completed; effected; established.

dokonywać

(transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

dokonywać abordażu

(transitive, nautical) To (at least attempt to) capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party.

dokonywać pomiaru

(transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

dokonywać zrzutu

To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

dokowanie

(astronautics) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.

dokrętka

(film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.

doksologia

An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.

doktor

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

doktorat

A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.

doktorka

A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.

doktryna

A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.

doktrynalny

Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.

doktryner

A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.

doktrynerka

A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.

dokuczać

(transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately in a playful way.

dokuczliwy

Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.

dokument

A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.

dokumentacja

(computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

dokumentalny

Of, related to, or based on documents.

dokumentarny

Of, related to, or based on documents.

dola

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

dolar

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

dolec

(US, Australia, NZ, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).

dolegliwość

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

dolewka

An additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.

dolina

(now, chiefly, US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

doliniarz

A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.

dolna szczęka

(countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.

dolny

Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.

Dolores

A en given name.

dół

The lowest part of anything.

dołączać

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

dołączyć

(transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended

dołeczek

Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.

dołek

(slang, idiomatic) Low spirits; depression.

dołożyć się

(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.

dom

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

dom dziecka

A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them.

dom letniskowy

A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

dom obłąkanych

(dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

dom publiczny

A house of prostitution.

dom rodzinny

The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.

dom wakacyjny

A second home used for holidays.

dom wariatów

(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.

domek na drzewie

(chiefly, US) A house, or similar structure within a tree, or several trees, built with light materials.

domena

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

domicyl

(formal) A home or residence.

domina

(BDSM) A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

dominacja

Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.

dominant

A species or organism that is dominant.

dominanta

(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

dominator

(BDSM) A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

dominicki

Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.

Dominik

A en given name, best known for the Spanish saint who founded the Dominican order.

Dominikańczyk

A person from the Dominican Republic or of its descent.