kadra

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Polish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French cadre.[1] First attested in the 20th century.[2][3]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkad.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -adra
  • Syllabification: kad‧ra

Noun[edit]

kadra f (related adjective kadrowy)

  1. cadre (small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession)
  2. (military) cadre (officers of a regiment forming the staff)
  3. cadre (players who represent their club, region, country or city in various types of competitions in a given sport)
    Synonym: reprezentacja
  4. (colloquial, in the plural) human resources (personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees; often abbreviated as HR)

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Kashubian: kadra

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kadra is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 34 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 56 times, making it the 1151st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “kadra”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kadra”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ kadra in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kadra”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 168

Further reading[edit]

  • kadra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kadry in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • kadra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

kadra

  1. Romanization of 𒃻𒊮𒀀 (kadra)