pociąg

Alternative forms

• ciapong (childish or ironic, humorous)

Etymology

Deverbal of pociągać. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French train, English train, and German Zug.^[1] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French inclination.^[1] First attested in 1550.^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.t͡ɕɔŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕɔŋk
• Syllabification: po‧ciąg

Noun

pociąg m inan (related adjective pociągowy)

2. train (mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport)

   Pociąg do Warszawy odjeżdża za godzinę. ― The train to Warsaw departs in an hour.

4. inclination, predilection, proclivity, predisposition, penchant (condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards)
5. (Middle Polish, construction) traverse holding up a wooden construction [16th century]^[2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
6. (Middle Polish, birding) line that one pulls to close a fowler's net [16th century]^[2] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
7. (Middle Polish, sailing) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along; the sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars, and ropes) [16th century]^[2]

   Synonym: żagiel

8. (obsolete) animal-drawn vehicle [17th–19th c.]^[3][4]
9. (obsolete) pulling (act by which something is pulled) [17th–19th c.]^[5][4]

   Synonym: pociąganie

References

Further reading

• pociąg in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pociąg in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pociąg in PWN's encyclopedia
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pociąg”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 311