język

Meaning

1. tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech; generally a human's but also sometimes an animal's)
2. tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
3. (obsolete) tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
4. (obsolete) tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
5. tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
6. tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
7. tongue (anything long resembling a tongue)
8. language, tongue (body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)
9. language (subject teaching a manner of speech in education)
10. language (sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field)
11. language (expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does; i.e. of film or body language)
12. language (computer language; a machine language)
13. tongue; interrogatee (prisoner captured to obtain information about the enemy)
14. defender (person speaking in favor of someone's name)
15. (obsolete) bottom of a scoop
16. nation

Hyphenated as

ję‧zyk

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈjɛw̃.zɨk/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish język. Cognate with English tongue and language.

Sentences

— A widzi łaskawy pan , jak mu się język rozwiązał.

"And you see, gracious sir, how his tongue has become loose."

Dziwożona pokazała język czerwony jak mak i wklęsły jak czółno .

The weirdo showed her tongue as red as a poppy and as concave as a canoe.