See also: racją and rǡćja

Polish

edit
 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /ˈra.t͡sja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡sja
  • Syllabification: ra‧cja

Etymology 1

edit

Learned borrowing from Latin ratiō.[1][2][3][4] Doublet of rezon (self-confidence). First attested in 1548.[5] Compare Silesian racyjŏ.

Noun

edit

racja f

  1. rightness, righteousness; fairness (that what is right, fair, or in accordance with reality)
    Synonym: słuszność
    Masz rację.You're right. (literally, “You have righteousness.”)
  2. point, reason (opinion which adds to the discussion; that which is used to convince)
    Synonym: argument
  3. cause, reason; justification (that what explains why something happened or why it is as it is, especially one based on something)
    Synonyms: powód, przyczyna
  4. cause (national or social interest)
    Synonyms: interes, sprawa
  5. (logic) sufficient condition (a sentence whose truth is a sufficient condition for recognizing the truth of another sentence)
  6. (Middle Polish) reason (faculty of capacity of the human mind)
    Synonym: rozum
Declension
edit
Derived terms
edit
adverbs
interjections
nouns
particles
prepositions
verbs
Trivia
edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), racja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 13 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 44 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 828th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]

Interjection

edit

racja

  1. right!

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology 2

edit

Borrowed from German Ration.[7][8][9] First attested in the 18th century.[7]

Noun

edit

racja f

  1. (literary) ration (portion of food allocated)
    Synonym: porcja
Declension
edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “racja 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “racja I”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “I racja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “racja”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  5. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “racyja”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  6. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “racja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 481
  7. 7.0 7.1 Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “racja 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  8. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “racja II”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  9. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “II racja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN

Further reading

edit