zjazd

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from zjeździć. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian zjôzd, Silesian sjŏzd, and Russian съезд (sʺjezd).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈzjast/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /zjɒst/

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• Rhymes: -ast
• Syllabification: zjazd

Noun

zjazd m inan (related adjective zjazdowy)

1. descent, rappel, downhill (act or result of riding downward)
2. descent, rappel, downhill (that which one rides downhill)
3. convention, congress, reunion (gathering of people in one place)

   Synonyms: kongres, zlot

4. convention, congress, reunion (deliberations held by such a gathering of people)
5. convention, congress, reunion (people gathered for such a meeting)
6. exit ramp, off-ramp (segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from a freeway onto local roads) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’] [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’] [with na (+ accusative) ‘onto what’]
7. (sports) downhill competition (competition in which the aim to reach the bottom of a slope in a set amount of time e.g. on skiis or a mountain bike, etc.)
8. (colloquial) drop, fall (decrease in stock value)

   Synonym: spadek

9. (colloquial) crash; comedown (bad feeling after the high of a drug)
10. drive-off (act of ending a vehicle's route to find a permanent stop or rest place)

Declension

Declension of zjazd

	singular	plural
nominative	zjazd	zjazdy
genitive	zjazdu	zjazdów
dative	zjazdowi	zjazdom
accusative	zjazd	zjazdy
instrumental	zjazdem	zjazdami
locative	zjeździe	zjazdach
vocative	zjeździe	zjazdy

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjazd is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 34 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 981st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• zjazd in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zjazd in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “ZJAZD”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24.09.2009
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zjazd”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 512