góra
Definitions
- 1.mountain (elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit)
Klasztor znajdował się na szczycie wysokiej góry.
The monastery was situated on the top of a high mountain.
- 2.top (higher part of some object; upmost part of something)
Góra strony powinna być pusta.
The top of the page should be empty.
Nie pomogę wam w tym projekcie, dopóki góra go nie przyklepie.
I won't help you with this project until the higher-ups sign off on it.
- 3.pile (collection of things one on top of the other)
- 4.mountains, mountain range
- 5.cape (piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake)
- 6.surface (external part of something)
- 7.The meaning of this term is uncertain.
Iakosz thy nam czlovyekya […] sz gory szvrzadem wszyal wszwoya cząscz crą czyreyowska thamo wgorze podla poszw gwalthem.
Mons pharetratus […] Der Kocherſberg. Sárczaná gorá.
- 8.obsoletemine (place for extracting resources)
obiecać złote góry/obiecywać złote góry
to promise the moon
- 9.obsoleteupper hand, advantage (condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end)
wziąć górę/brać górę
to get the better of
- 10.at most, tops
Skończę za dwa, góra trzy dni.
I'll finish in two, three days at most.
Synonyms & related words
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish góra. Sense 5 is preserved in terms such as górnik and was displaced by kopalnia. Doublet of hore.
Forms
- górkadiminutive
- g.abbreviation
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | góra | góry |
| Genitive | góry | gór |
| Dative | górze | górom |
| Accusative | górę | góry |
| Instrumental | górą | górami |
| Locative | górze | górach |
| Vocative | góro | góry |