koszara
//kɔˈʂa.ra//
Polishnoun
Grammatical form
koszara is the genitive singular form of koszar — “alternative form of koszara (“sheepfold, pen”) (portable encloruse in the Western Carpathians, built of detachable bays)”.
Definitions
- 1.barrack, barracks (building or a group of buildings used by military personnel as housing)
- 2.barrack, barracks (building or a group of buildings located on the territory of some workplace and intended for the needs of its employees)
- 3.dialectalregionalsheepfold, pen (portable enclosure in the Western Carpathians, built of detachable bays)
Synonyms & related words
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish koszara, from a Romance language (cf. Romanian coșar /coșara /cașare), from Old Church Slavonic кошара (košara), from Proto-Slavic *košàra. Compare Czech košár and Ukrainian коша́ра (košára). The meaning of “barracks” was transferred from kasarnia as a result of contamination due to phonetic and semantic similarities (“a closed, fenced area; a building where someone lives”).