gruby
See also: Gruby
Polish
Etymology
Derived from Old East Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *grǫbъ. Doublet of gręby of the same meaning that mostly disappeared.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡru.bɘ/
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Western Lublin) IPA(key): [ˈɡru.bɘ]
- (Eastern Lublin) IPA(key): [ˈɡru.bɘ]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ubɘ
- Syllabification: gru‧by
- Homophone: Gruby
Adjective
gruby (comparative grubszy, derived adverb grubo)
- thick (of an object)
- Antonym: cienki
- fat, overweight, corpulent (of a person)
- (obsolete) vulgar; rude; crass
- Synonym: grubiański
- (slang) awesome; great; excellent
- low (of a pitch)
- (Western Lublin, Zakrzówek, Eastern Lublin, Krasnystaw County) synonym of bogaty
Declension
Declension of gruby (hard)
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
| nominative/ |
gruby | gruba | grube | grubi | grube | |
| genitive | grubego | grubej | grubego | grubych | ||
| dative | grubemu | grubej | grubemu | grubym | ||
| accusative | grubego | gruby | grubą | grube | grubych | grube |
| instrumental | grubym | grubą | grubym | grubymi | ||
| locative | grubym | grubej | grubym | grubych | ||
Derived terms
adverb
- (dialectal) wgrub
- z grubej rury
Further reading
- gruby in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gruby in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “gruby”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 275