rejon

See also: rejón

English

Etymology

Spanish rejón

Noun

rejon (plural rejones)

1. A lance used in bullfighting.

Related terms

• rejoneo

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin ratiō, ratiōnem.

Noun

rejon f (plural rejons)

1. reason
2. motive

Derived terms

• rejoner

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rayon. First attested in 1813.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.jɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛjɔn
• Syllabification: re‧jon

Noun

rejon m inan (related adjective rejonowy)

1. area (place that is distinctive geographically, socially, economically or otherwise)
   1. area (people living in such a place)
2. district (area designated administratively for the purposes of organizing and managing a specific activity)
   1. district (office managing such an area)
   2. district (people managing such an area)
3. area (place that is part of something)
4. (literary) area (sphere of interests)

   Synonym: sfera

Declension

Declension of rejon

	singular	plural
nominative	rejon	rejony
genitive	rejonu	rejonów
dative	rejonowi	rejonom
accusative	rejon	rejony
instrumental	rejonem	rejonami
locative	rejonie	rejonach
vocative	rejonie	rejony

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rejon is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 29 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 97 times, making it the 650th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• rejon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rejon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “rejon”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 504
• rejon in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Venetan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin regiō, regiōnem. Compare Italian regione

Noun

rejon f (plural rejoni)

1. region

Related terms

• rejonale