Polish–English dictionary

fryzjerka

A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

fryzura

The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

FSB

(initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, police) The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

fu

(euphemistic) An interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent.

fucha

Originally (music) , a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

fuga

A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.

fugować

(transitive) To insert mortar between tiles.

fuj

(euphemistic) An interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent.

fujarka

(woodwind instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube. [from 10th c.]

fukanie

The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.

fuks

A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.

fuksja

A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

ful

(poker slang) A full house.

fular

A type of cravat or necktie with a narrow neckband and wide wings laid one across the other.

fulminat

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.

fundament

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

fundamentalista

One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.

fundamentalistka

One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.

fundamentalizm

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

fundamentalny

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

fundator

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundatorka

One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

fundowanie

Money provided as funds.

fundusz

The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

fundusze do spłacenia

(finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.

funk

(uncountable, music genre) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

funkcja

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

funkcja zdaniowa

(logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

funkcjonalność

(uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.

funkcjonalny

Practical and functional, present for use, not just for show.

funkcjonał

(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.

funkcjonować

(intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

funkcjonowanie

(uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.

funkcyjny

(computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

funt

The currency of the United Kingdom.

funt sterling

The currency of the United Kingdom.

funt szterling

The currency of the United Kingdom.

fura

(US, Canada, Philippines, AU, NZ) A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.

furas

Any member of the furry fandom or subculture (including those without fursonas).

furgonetka

(rail, US) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.

Furia

(Greek mythology) A female personification of vengeance.

Furie

(Greek god) Synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance.

furman

A person who drives a chariot.

furry

(informal) Of or related to the furry fandom or subculture.

furtka

A doorlike structure outside a house.

fusy

The sediment that remains after ground coffee beans have been extracted with hot water.

fuszerka

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

fuszerować

(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

fuszerstwo

(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

futbol

A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

futbol australijski

A variety of football devised in Australia, played on an oval field with an oval ball that players try to kick between the goalposts or between a central and outer post.

futbol stołowy

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)

futerał

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

futro

(uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.

futro kuny wodnej

Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

futrzak

(usually, affectionate, US, Australia) A creature, an animal.

futrzany

Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

futurysta

(arts) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

futurystka

(arts) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

futurystyczny

In the style of futurism.

futuryzm

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.

fuzja

The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

fyrkać

(intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

fyrknąć

(intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

gabinet

(politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.

gąbka z trukwy

The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.

gablota

A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry and a bus.

Gabriela

A en given name, a latinate feminine form of Gabriel.

gach

A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.

gacie

(chiefly, Australia, informal) Male underpant bikini briefs.

gad

(informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc. [from 19th c.]

gadać

To be engaged in informal conversation.

gadanina

Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

gadatliwy

(of a person) Loud or talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner.

gadka

A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.

gaduła

(idiomatic, often, derogatory) A person who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.

gadżet

Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.

gadzina

A bizarre or whimsical creature.

gaelicki

Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland and Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.

gafa

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

gag

A joke or other mischievous prank.

gagat

The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

gagatek

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

gagatowy

(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.

gągołek

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola. [from 1850s]

gaijin

(from the perspective of a Japanese person) A non-Japanese person.

gaijinka

(from the perspective of a Japanese person) A non-Japanese person.

gaj

A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

gajowy

A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects.

Gal

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

galaktyczny

(astronomy, specifically, sometimes capitalized) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.

galaktyka

(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]

galareta

A meat or fish jelly.

galaretka

(Commonwealth) A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

galaretowaty

Jelly-like.

galart

A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

galas

(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

galasówka

(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

galeon

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

galeona

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

galera

(nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

galeria

(architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.

Galia

(chiefly, historic) A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

Galicia

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

Galicja

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

galidia

Any of several species of generalist predatory carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. Indian mongooses are predators of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.

Galijka

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

Galilea

A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.

Galileusz

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.

galimatias

(literature) A work of macaronic character.

galion

(nautical) A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.

galop

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

galopować

(transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

galoty

(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]

galwano-

and electrical.

Galway

A city in County Galway, Ireland.

gała

(originated, , late 19th C, now, commonly, US, Australia) Association football.

gałąź

A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

gałązka

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.

gałka

The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.

gałka muszkatołowa

The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.

gałka oczna

The ball of the eye.

gama

Selection, array.

gamepad

(video games) A type of game controller held in both hands and controlled with the thumbs.

gamma

The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).

gamoń

A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.

gamoniowaty

(figurative) Sluggish, dull, slow-witted.

Gandawa

The capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

ganek

(architectural element) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.

Ganeśa

(Hinduism) A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.

Ganges

A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.

gangrena

The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

gangster

A member of a criminal or street gang.

ganić

(ambitransitive) To rebuke angrily.

gapa

A stupid person.

garaż

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

garb

A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

garbarz

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

garbata

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

garbaty

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

garbować

(transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.

garbus

(UK, Australia, NZ) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).

garbuska

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

gardenia

Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.

gardło

(anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.

gardzić

To regard with contempt or scorn.

gargantuiczny

Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

gargulec

A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.

garncarka

One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.

garncarstwo

The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.