Polish–English dictionary

napiwek

An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.

napiwek wliczony

A cover charge.

napletek

(anatomy) The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.

napływ

A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.

napływać

(intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.

napoczynać

To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

napoić

(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

napój

A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, usually excluding water.

napój alkoholowy

(chiefly, UK, Australia, New Zealand) Distilled alcoholic beverages.

napój chłodzący

(Philippines, countable) samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)

napój gazowany

(NZ) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage.

napój gazowany z sokiem cytrynowym

(Japan, South Korea) A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.

napój gazowany z sokiem jabłkowym

(US, Canada) A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).

napoleon

(historical, _, numismatics, slang) The franc germinal: a 20-franc gold coin issued under Napoleon I of France.

napoleondor

(historical, _, numismatics, slang) The franc germinal: a 20-franc gold coin issued under Napoleon I of France.

napoleonka

A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.

napomnienie

The act or practice of exhorting.

napompować balon

(intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).

napór

A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

napowietrzać

(transitive) To supply with oxygen or air.

napowietrzyć

(transitive) To supply with oxygen or air.

napraszać się

(transitive) To harass with persistent requests.

naprawa

An understanding, grasp of something.

naprawdę

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

naprawiać

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

naprawiacz

one who, or that which, fixes.

naprawić

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

naprędce

In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.

naprężenie

(countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.

naprężony

(also, figuratively) Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.

napromieniować

(often, literary, or, poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.

napromieniowywać

(often, literary, or, poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.

naprzeciw

Facing, or across from.

naprzeciwko

On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).

naprzód

Before anything else; firstly.

naprzykrzać się

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

napuścić

(transitive, informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

napuszczać

(transitive, informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

napuszony

(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

nara

(slang) See you later; goodbye.

narada

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

narastający

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

narciarka

Specialized footwear used in skiing to provide a way to attach the skier to skis using ski bindings.

narciarstwo

(skiing) nordic skiing, including cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping.

narciarz

One who skis.

Narcyz

(Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

narcyzm

Excessive love of oneself.

nardy

A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.

nareszcie

(idiomatic) After a long time; eventually.

nargile

(recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

narkolepsja

(pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.

narkotyczny

Of, or relating to narcotics.

narkotyk

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

narkoza

(American spelling, medicine) A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

Narnia

(fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.

naród

(collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

narodowość

National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. [from 18th c.]

narodowy

Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. [from 16th c.]

narodzenie

(Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

narodziny

(uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.

narodzony

Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

narośl

Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

narów

Bad or immoral behaviour.

narowisty

Savage and aggressive.

narożnik

(geography) A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.

narracja

That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.

narracyjny

Of or relating to narration.

narratologia

The study of narrative structure.

narrator

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

narratorka

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.

narratywny

Telling a story.

narta

One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

narta wodna

One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.

naruszać

(intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.

naruszenie

The act of contravening (a rule, regulation, law, or order) or of not fulfilling (an obligation, promise, or agreement).

naruszenie prawa

(legal) A minor offence, petty crime.

naruszyć

(transitive) To violate or break.

narybek

Young fish; fishlings.

narząd

The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

narząd bębenkowy

(zootomy, entomology) A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.

narząd tympanalny

(zootomy, entomology) A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.

narządy płciowe

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

narzaz

A V-shaped cut.

narzecze

A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.

narzeczona

One who is betrothed, i.e. a fiancé or fiancée.

narzeczony

One who is betrothed, i.e. a fiancé or fiancée.

narzędzie

A tool or instrument for working with.

narzekać

(intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

narżnąć

(transitive) To cut a notch in (something).

narzucać się

(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

narzucić się

(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.

narzut

An increase in price.

narzuta

The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.

narzynać

(transitive) To cut a notch in (something).

nas

We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:

NASA

Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

nasamprzód

Before anything else; firstly.

naście

Used to form cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen.

nasenny

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.

Nashville

The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.

nasiębierny

powered by water that flows over the top from above (of a water wheel)

nasienie

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

nasilać się

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

nasilenie

The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.

nasilić się

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

nasionko

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

nasiono

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.

naśladować

(transitive) To imitate.

naśladowca

A person or thing that emulates.

naśladowczyni

A person or thing that emulates.

naśladownictwo

The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.

nasłonecznienie

The incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit area over a period of time, typically measured over a horizontal area at the Earth's surface or at the top of Earth's atmosphere.

nasłuchiwać

(intransitive, _, except in archaic usage) To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.

nasłuchujący

(networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

naśmiecić

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

Nassau

The capital city of the Bahamas.

nastąpić

(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]

nastawić

(transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

nastawienie

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

nastawiony na współzawodnictwo

(of someone's character) Inclined to compete.

następca

A person expected to inherit or take over an enterprise or undertaking once its current manager retires or dies.

następca tronu

(usually, monarchy) Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited.

następczyni

One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.

następczyni tronu

(usually, monarchy) Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited.

następnie

In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.

następnik

(logic, grammar) The consequential clause in a conditional sentence.

następny

One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

następować

(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. [15th–17th c.]

następstwo

That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

następujący

In the manner described hereafter.

nastolatek

A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

nastolatka

A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

nastoletni

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

nastraszyć

(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

nastrój

The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.

nastrojowy

Evoking a particular emotional or aesthetic quality.

naświetlić

(transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.

nasycać

(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

nasycenie

(chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.

nasycić

(transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

nasyp

a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.

nasz

(colloquial, may seem patronising) That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.

naszkicować

To give a vague outline.

naszyjnik

(jewelry) An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.

Natalia

A en given name.

Natasza

A en given name borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.

natchnienie

A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.

natężenie prądu

(electricity) The amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.

natka pietruszki

(uncountable) The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.

natłok

(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.