Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *porędъkъ.^[1][2][3] First attested in the 16th century.^[4]Category:Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic#PORZADEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#PORZADEKCategory:Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂epó#PORZADEKCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PORZADEKCategory:Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#PORZADEKCategory:Pages with etymology trees#PORZADEKCategory:Polish entries with etymology trees#PORZADEKCategory:Polish entries with etymology texts#PORZADEKCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#PORZADEK By surface analysis, porządzić +‎ -ekCategory:Polish terms suffixed with -ek#PORZADEK.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔndɛkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔndɛk#PORZADEKCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔndɛk/3 syllables#PORZADEK
• Syllabification: po‧rzą‧dek

Noun

porządek m inan (diminutive porządeczek, related adjective porządkowy)Category:Polish lemmas#PORZADEKCategory:Polish nouns#PORZADEKCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#PORZADEKCategory:Polish masculine nouns#PORZADEKCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#PORZADEKCategory:Pages with entries#PORZĄDEKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PORZĄDEK

1. (uncountableCategory:Polish uncountable nouns#PORZADEK) order (state of being well arranged)

   Synonyms: glancuś, ład

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:nieporządek

2. (uncountableCategory:Polish uncountable nouns#PORZADEK) order (sequence in which some set appears)

   Synonym: kolejność

3. (uncountableCategory:Polish uncountable nouns#PORZADEK) order (conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquility; public quiet)

   Synonym: ład

4. (countableCategory:Polish countable nouns#PORZADEK) order (set of rules between between people within a society)

   Synonyms: ład, ustrój

5. (countableCategory:Polish countable nouns#PORZADEK, artCategory:pl:Art#PORZADEK) order (system of construction, composition and decoration of buildings established in antiquity, associated with maintaining specific proportions)
6. (countableCategory:Polish countable nouns#PORZADEK) horses selected to take the first two places in a race
7. (uncountableCategory:Polish uncountable nouns#PORZADEK) order (relationship between people and their values or between specific phenomena)
8. (uncountableCategory:Polish uncountable nouns#PORZADEK, obsoleteCategory:Polish terms with obsolete senses#PORZADEK, historicalCategory:Polish terms with historical senses#PORZADEK) representatives of the city's citizens in the city government
9. (countableCategory:Polish countable nouns#PORZADEK, obsoleteCategory:Polish terms with obsolete senses#PORZADEK) rule; custom (something by which people abide)
10. (in the plural) act of tidying
11. (Chełmno-DobrzyńCategory:Chełmno-Dobrzyń Polish#PORZADEK, in the plural) artisanal tools

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), porządek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 35 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 96 times, making it the 656th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

References

Further reading

• “porządek”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “porządki”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “porządek”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎ (in Polish)
• “PORZĄDEK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.07.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “porządek”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “porządek”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “porządek”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 727
• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879), “porządki”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 307