Polish–English dictionary

klasyfikować

to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

klasztor

A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

klasztor (żeński)

(now, _, especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.

klatka

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

klatka piersiowa

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

klatka schodowa

A flight of stairs; a stairway.

klątwa

A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.

Klaudia

A en given name.

Klaudiusz

(countable) A en given name.

klaun

A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

klaustrofobia

The fear of closed, tight places.

klauzula

(legal) A distinct part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

klauzura

(figuratively) The monastic life.

klawesyn

(musical instruments) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.

klawiatura

(music) An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.

klawisz

(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

klecha

A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.

klęczeć

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

kleić

(transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

kleik

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

kleistość

The property of sticking or adhering; adhesion.

kleisty

Of or pertaining to mucilage; of, pertaining to, or resembling mucus; slimy and viscous.

kleiwo

Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).

klej

A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

klejnot

(heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.

klejnoty

(slang, euphemistic) The male genitalia.

klekotanie

Rattling sound.

klekotka

(musical instruments) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound. [from 17th c.]

Klemens

A en given name, borne by an early pope and by several saints.

klementynka

A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.

Kleopatra

A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.

klępa

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

klepaczka

(countable) A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.

klepnięcie

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

klepsydra

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

kleptokracja

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

kler

Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.

kleryk

A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.

klęska

An event resulting in great loss.

klęska głodu

(countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.

kleszcz

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

kleszcze

A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.

kleszczojad

Any bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.

klient

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

klientela

The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

klientka

A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.

klif

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.

klik

The sound of a click.

klika

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

klimaks

(medical) The bodily and mental changes linked to the reproductive and endocrine function in men and women occurring during the latter part of middle age.

klimakterium

(medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. [from 18th c.]

klimat

(figurative, with about, of) A distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding or associated with something or someone. [from 1859]

klimatyczny

Evoking a particular emotional or aesthetic quality.

klin

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

Klingon

(countable) A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.

Klingonka

(countable) A member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on the strict observance of honor, loyalty, and combat.

klingoński

An artificial language created by Marc Okrand for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

klinicysta

(chiefly, US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.

klinicystka

(chiefly, US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.

klinika

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

Klio

(Greek god) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

kliper

(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.

kliring

(banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.

klisza

(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.

klitka

A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy and safety by children

kliwer

(nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.

klizma

To administer an enema.

kloc

Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

klon

A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

klonować

(transitive) To create a clone of.

klop

(US, Philippines, euphemism) A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory.

klops

A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.

klosz

A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.

kloszard

(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.

klozet

A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.

klub

(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

klub nocny

A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.

klucz

(music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

klucz basowy

(music) a clef which indicates the position of F below middle C in a given staff.

klucz płaski

(Commonwealth, UK, Irish) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

klucz sprzętowy

(computer hardware) A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.

kluczowy

Indispensable, supremely important.

kluski

(usually, in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.

kłąb

The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height. [from 1580]

kładka

(fashion) A narrow elevated stage on which models parade.

kłak

A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.

kłamać

(informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

kłamca

(figurative) A liar.

kłamczuch

A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.

kłamczucha

A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.

kłamstewko

(informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.

kłamstwo

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.

kłaniać się

(figuratively) To grovel, act in a very submissive manner; to show obeisance to (someone or something) in such a manner; to bow.

Kłapouchy

(figuratively) An excessively negative or pessimistic person.

kłaść

(transitive) To knock down or lay low.

kłaść plytki

(transitive) To cover with tiles.

kłębek

A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

kłębek nerwów

(originally, US) A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.

kłobuk

(headwear) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

kłócić się

(idiomatic) To argue uncompromisingly.

kłoda

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

kłódka

A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle

kłonica

A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

kłopot

Trouble, inconvenience.

kłopotliwa sytuacja

An unfortunate or trying position or condition.

kłopotliwy

Causing trouble, annoyance, inconvenience, irritation, or perplexity.

kłopoty

A distressing or dangerous situation.

kłos

(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

kłosek

(botany) A small, or secondary spike, especially one of many in the inflorescence of a grass or sedge.

kłótliwy

(figuratively) Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone. [from early 17th c.]

kłótnia

A fight or argument.

kłótnica

Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.

kłótnik

Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.

kłuć

(transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

kłus

(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

kłusować

(ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.

kłusownictwo

Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.

kłusownik

A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.

kłykieć

(anatomy) A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.

kmieć

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

kmin rzymski

The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.

kminek

The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.

kmotr

(crime) A mafia leader.

knaga

(nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.

knajpa

To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

knebel

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

knedel

(chiefly, US) Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.

kniaź

The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]

knieja

(music) A woodwind instrument.

knocić

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

knot

(countable) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.

knuć

(intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.

knucie

(loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.

knut

A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

knypel

(music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.

koala

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

koalicja

A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

kobalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

kobiałka

(US, dated, informal, slightly, derogatory) A woman.

kobieca praca

Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.

kobieca robota

Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.

kobiecina

A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

kobiecość

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

kobiecy

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.

kobierzec

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

kobieta

(US, dated, informal, slightly, derogatory) A woman.

kobieta fatalna

An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.

kobieton

(informal, sometimes, humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.

kobra

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

kobuz

Falco subbuteo, a small raptor of the falcon family.