inżynier
Polish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French ingénieur.[1][2][3] First attested in 1588.[4] Noun 1 sense 4 is a sarcastic reference to skilled immigration schemes aimed at attracting educated people, such as engineers. Compare with German Merkels Fachkräfte and English doctors and engineers.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editinżynier m pers (female equivalent inżynier or inżynierka, diminutive inżynierek, related adjective inżynierski, abbreviation inż.)
- engineer (person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbors, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer)
- engineer (person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so)
- 1922, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Z dawnych dziejów, Lwów-Warszawa-Kraków: Wydawnictwo Zakładu Nar. Imienia Ossolińskich, page 167:
- Do syrakuzańskich kamieniołomów wzywano inżynierów i górników z Mesyny, opłacając na wagę złota ich trudy. […]
- Engineers and miners from Messina were summoned to the Syracuse quarries, and their labors were paid at a price worth of gold. […]
- engineer (honorific title given to engineers before their name)
- (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (colloquial, ironic, offensive) dangerous immigrant, especially from Africa or the Middle East
- 2025 July 22, Uniszewski, Krystian, Facebook[4], archived from the original on 1 January 2026:
- Minister Kotula, jak myślicie przyjęła już jakiś[sic – meaning jakichś] inżynierów?😉
- Minister Kotula, do you think she has let some engineers in yet?😉
- 2025 December 29, BANDA FRYTKI, 00:00:02.800 from the start, in obrońca granicy! #goviral #dlaciebie #dc #viral #polska #granica[6], via YouTube:
- Jak widać pilnuje granicy, żeby żadnej inżyniery tutaj nie przechodziły.
- [Jak widać, pilnuję granicy, żeby żadne inżyniery tutaj nie przechodziły.]
- As you can see, I'm guarding the border, so that no engineers can come through.
- 2026 January 7, @K_Stanowski [Stanowski, Krzysztof], X[7] (post), archived from the original on 31 January 2026:
- Wy się śmiejecie, że sprowadzamy do Polski inżynierów, tymczasem to naprawdę mogą być inżynierowie.
- You're laughing that we're bringing engineers to Poland, but they really could be engineers.
Declension
edit| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | inżynier | inżynierzy/inżynierowie/inżyniery (deprecative) |
| genitive | inżyniera | inżynierów |
| dative | inżynierowi | inżynierom |
| accusative | inżyniera | inżynierów |
| instrumental | inżynierem | inżynierami |
| locative | inżynierze | inżynierach |
| vocative | inżynierze | inżynierzy/inżynierowie/inżyniery (deprecative) |
Noun
editinżynier f (indeclinable)
- female equivalent of inżynier (“engineer”) (person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbors, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer)
- Synonym: inżynierka
- female equivalent of inżynier (“engineer”) (person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so)
- Synonym: inżynierka
- female equivalent of inżynier (“engineer”) (honorific title given to engineers before their name)
- Synonym: (colloquial, proscribed) inżynierka
Synonyms
edit| Regional synonyms of inżynier (“engineer”) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ; edit data | |||
| Dialect group | Dialect | Location | Words |
| Standard | inżynier | ||
| Middle Polish | inżyniér, ingenier | ||
| Masovia | Near Masovian | Żelechów | nizinier |
| Łowicz | nizinier | ||
| Lesser Poland | Eastern Kraków | Bochnia | lizimiér, lizimir |
| Gdów | lizimiér, lizimir | ||
| Western Kraków | lizynier, liżynier | ||
| Będzin County | nizinier | ||
| Ojców | indzinier | ||
| Pieskowa Skała | indzinier | ||
| Pisarzowice | niziner | ||
| Western Lublin | niżynier | ||
| Zakrzówek | inzijer | ||
| Goral | Babia Góra | Juszczyn | nizior |
| Podhale | lizynier, lizimir, mizinier | ||
| Ząb | izimier | ||
| Zagórze | jinzinier, jindzinier, nizinier | ||
| This table shows various regional forms in the Polish language. | |||
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTrivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), inżynier is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 27 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 19 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 617th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
edit- ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “inżynier”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “inżynier”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language][1] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “inżynier”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Gostomski, Anzelm (1588), Gospodarstwo[2] (in Middle Polish), published 1588, przedmowa Jakuba Siebeneichera, page +3v: “nietylko teráznieyſzy Ingenierowie/ álbo dawny Vitruuius/ ále ſámi Doriycżykowie/ Koryntcżykowie/ dźiwowáliby ſie: k temu ieſzcże rzemioſł/ ośiádłośćiam tákim potrzebnych”
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “inżynier”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][3] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 156
Further reading
edit- Modern Standard Polish:
- “inżynier”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[8] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “inżynier”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[9] (in Polish)
- Zygmunt Saloni, et al., editors (2020), “inżynier”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish][10], 4. online edition, Warszawa
- Middle Polish:
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “ingenier”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “INŻYNIER”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
- Historic dictionaries:
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1808), “inżenier”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 1b, page 912
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “inżynjer”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume I, page 424
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “inżynier”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 108
- Dialectal dictionaries:
- Jan Karłowicz (1901), “inżenjer”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 208
- Etymological dictionaries:
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “inżynier”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
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