zbiór

Etymology

Deverbal from zbierać.^[1] First attested in the 16th century.^[2] Compare Kashubian zbiór and Silesian zbiōr.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: zbiór

Noun

zbiór m inan (diminutive zbiorek, related adjective zbiorowy)

1. set, collection (single thing that is comprised of many smaller things)
2. collection (all things gathered in one place)

   Synonym: kolekcja

3. (agriculture) harvest (act of gathering ready produce from a field)
4. crop, harvest (that which was gathered in such a way)

   Synonym: plon

5. (set theory) set (collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it)

   Synonym: agregat

6. (obsolete) gathering (act of meeting)

   Synonym: zbiórka

7. (obsolete) gathered riches
8. (obsolete) collection (group of people)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zbiór is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 59 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 10 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 82 times, making it the 787th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

References

Further reading

• zbiór in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zbiór in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “ZBIÓR”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.07.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zbiór”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zbiór”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zbiór”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 383