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język

Pronunciation: /ˈjɛw̃.zɘk/

“język” is a Polish word. Its 17 meanings in English:

noun

  1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech; generally a human's but also sometimes an animal's)
  2. tongue (long flap of a shoe)
  3. part of a plow; type of snow blade; short shaft
  4. shape of tied handkerchief resembling a tongue
  5. part of a box for cutting chaff
  6. flame (visible part of fire)
  7. uvula
  8. bay, gulf
  9. language, tongue (body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)
  10. language (subject teaching a manner of speech in education)
  11. language (sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field)
  12. language (expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does; i.e. of film or body language)
  13. language (computer language; a machine language)
  14. tongue; interrogatee (prisoner captured to obtain information about the enemy)
  15. defender (person speaking in favor of someone's name)
  16. bottom of a scoop
  17. nation

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish język. Cognate with English tongue and language.

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