zaraz

See also: zaraź

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaras]

Verb

zaraz

1. second-person singular imperative of zarazit

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈza.ras/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈza.rɒs/

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• Rhymes: -aras
• Syllabification: za‧raz

Etymology 1

Univerbation of za +‎ raz. First attested in the 16th century.

Alternative forms

• zara (colloquial or dialectal)

Adverb

zaraz (not comparable)

1. at once, immediately

   Synonym: natychmiast

2. soon, with a verb, approximately about to

   Synonyms: niedługo, wraz

   Zaraz będzie padać. ― It is about to rain.

3. (obsolete) at the same time

   Synonym: zarazem

Particle

zaraz

1. used to let someone know that the speaker needs a moment to think about what they want to say and that they will continue speaking in a moment; wait a minute

   Synonym: zaraz, zaraz

2. (colloquial) (used to indicate a new insight or dawning understanding; wait a minute

   Synonym: zaraz, zaraz

3. (colloquial) used to signal that what has been said is too much; but

   Synonym: od razu

4. close, just, right

   Synonym: tuż

   Sklep jest zaraz obok tego budynku. ― The store is right next to this building.

5. (obsolete) thereby

   Synonym: tym samym

Derived terms

adverbs

• teraz zaraz

 

particles

• zaraz, zaraz

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: zarôz
• → Slovincian: zaroz
• → Silesian: zarŏz

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zaraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 6 times in essays, 64 times in fiction, and 117 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 199 times, making it the 277th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

zaraz f

1. genitive plural of zaraza

Further reading

• zaraz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zaraz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “ZARAZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.01.2017
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zaraz”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 244