Polish–English dictionary

kursywa

(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.

kurtka

A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

kurtuazja

(uncountable) Polite behavior.

kurtyna

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

kurwa

(slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

kurz

(countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.

kurzajka

(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

kurzawka

Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

kurzy móżdżek

(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.

kurzyślad

Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). [from 15th c.]

kusacz

(zoology) Any member of the avian family Tinamidae of tinamous.

kusić

(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

kuskus

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

kustodia

The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.

kuśtykać

To walk lame, or unevenly.

kuśtykanie

An unsteady, off-balance step.

kusy

(of a garment) Very small, light, or revealing.

kusza

A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.

kuszący

Sexually appealing; seductive.

kuszenie

Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement, seducement, or enticement.

kutas

(slang, vulgar) A penis. [from 16th c.]

kutwa

(obsolete) A person who is wretched or despicable; a wretch.

kuty

Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal

kuźnia

A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

kuźwa

(mildly, vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

kuzyn

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

kuzynka

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

kwa

The sound made by a duck.

kwadr

(cards, dice, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.

kwadrat

Shaped like a square (the polygon).

kwadratowy

(mathematics) Of a polynomial, equation or function, second-degree: involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax^2 + bx + c.

kwadrylion

(dated, UK, Australia, long scale) A million trillion (logic: 1,000,0004): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 1024.

kwaga

A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.

kwagga

A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.

kwak

The sound made by a duck.

kwakać

To make a noise like a duck.

kwakier

A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

kwaknięcie

The sound made by a duck.

kwant

(physics) The smallest possible, and therefore indivisible, unit of a given quantity or quantifiable phenomenon. [from 20th c.]

kwantowa

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

kwantowe

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

kwantowy

(physics) Involving quanta, quantum mechanics or other aspects of quantum physics.

kwarc

(mineral) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO2. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.

kwark

(particle) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.

kwarta

A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.

kwartalnie

Once every quarter year (three months).

kwartalnik

A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

kwartał

(now, historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night. [from 14th c.]

kwartet

(musician) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.

kwas hialuronowy

(sugar acid) A mucopolysaccharide (a kind of polymer) that forms a gel-like substance within animal connective tissue.

kwas salicylowy

(carboxylic acid) A white crystalline organic acid, 2-hydroxybenzoic acid, C6>H4(OH)(COOH), used in the production of aspirin and other industrial chemicals.

kwaśnieć

(intransitive) To become sour.

kwaśny

(figuratively) Sour-tempered.

kwasowość

The quality or state of being acid.

kwasowy

(chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.

kwaszonka

(often, in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.

kwater

(cards, dice, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.

kwatera

A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.

kwatermistrz

(military rank) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering.

kwaternion

(mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.

kwaterować

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

kwazar

(galaxy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

kwękacz

One who bellyaches; a complainer.

kwękaczka

One who bellyaches; a complainer.

kwerenda

(computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

kwerendować

(computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

kwestia

A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

kwestionariusz

A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.

kwestionować

(transitive) To assert that something is not true.

kwiaciarka

A person who sells flowers.

kwiaciarz

A person who sells flowers.

kwiat

A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.

kwiat muszkatołowy

A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

kwiatek

A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.

kwiatostan

(botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

kwiatowy

Of, pertaining to, or connected with flowers.

kwiczeć

(intransitive) Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

kwiecie majowe

Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

kwiecień

The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May.

kwiecisty

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.

kwiknąć

(intransitive) Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

kwilić

To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

kwinoa

A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.

kwintesencja

A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.

kwit

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

kwitnąć

(intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.

kwitnienie

The state or season of producing such flowers.

kworum

The minimum number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.

kwota

The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

kyliks

An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body.

la

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.

laba

Time when one is not working.

labialny

(linguistics, phonetics) Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.

labilny

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

labirynt

(by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.

labiryntowy

Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

laboratorium

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

Labrador

(chiefly, historical) A geographic region, including the mainland portion of Newfoundland and Labrador and neighbouring regions of what is now the province of Quebec.

lać

(idiomatic, sometimes considered, vulgar, chiefly, US, Canada) To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.

lać się

(intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream

lacrosse

(sports) A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by scoring more goals within the allotted time.

laczek

Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.

ląd

(geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

ląd stały

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

lada

(idiomatic, informal) Any, absolutely any, any typical, a run-of-the-mill.

ladacznica

(obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

lądować

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

lądowanie

An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

lądowisko

(aviation) An open field designated for the taking off and landing of aircraft, but which, unlike an airport, does not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.

lądownik

A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.

lady

A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.

lafirynda

(obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

lag

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

lager

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

laguna

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

Lahaur

The second largest city of Pakistan and the provincial capital of Punjab; located on the Ravi river.

lai

(historical) A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat.

laicki

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.

laikat

People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.

lajk

(internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.

lajkować

(Internet, social media, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

lak

Wax formerly melted onto a letter to seal it; the picture of the sender's seal was often pressed into the wax as evidence that the letter had not been opened.

lakh

One hundred thousand (10⁵): 100,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000.

lakier

A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.

lakoniczny

Brief, yet including all important information.

lakrymator

Any substance that causes tears, such as tear gas.

laktacja

The secretion of milk#Noun from the mammary gland of a female mammal.

laktoza

(carbohydrate) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

laktyczny

(medicine) Of or pertaining to milk, or the secretion of milk.

lala

(by extension, informal, derogatory) A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

lalka

(by extension, informal, derogatory) A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

lalkarka

A person who uses a puppet.

lalkarz

A person who uses a puppet.

lalunia

(by extension, informal, derogatory) A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

laluś

A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

lama

A master of Tibetan Buddhism.

lambda

The eleventh letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabet, the twelfth of the Old Greek alphabet.

lambdacyzm

(phonology) A pronunciation shift whereby /l/ or other closely related phonemes are substituted for other sounds (typically /r/), as Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary.

lament

An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.

lamentacja

The act of lamenting.

lamentować

(intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.

lamia

(Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.

lampa

A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

lampa acetylenowa

A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

lampa błyskowa

(photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).

lampa czołowa

A flashlight worn on the head.

lampa karbidowa

A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.

lampa lutownicza

A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.

lampart

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).

lampart plamisty

Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).