wrąbać
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]wrąbać pf (imperfective wrąbywać)
- (intransitive or reflexive with się, colloquial) to smash (to hit or collide with, making a loud sound or causing damage) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
- (transitive, colloquial) to inhale (to eat quickly and voraciously)
- (transitive, colloquial) to entangle (to involve someone in something unnecessarily, often to their detriment) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
- (reflexive with się) to chop one's way into (to cut down trees in an area of the forest in order to clear new areas for activities) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
- (reflexive with się) to cut one's way into (to make a hole by hitting strongly with a sharp instrument) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to entangle oneself (to involve oneself in something accidentally, often to one's detriment) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
Conjugation
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- wrąbać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wrąbać się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wrąbać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wrąbać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wrąbać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wrąbać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 729