ognisko

Meaning

1. bonfire, campfire (pile of wood, brushwood, etc., lit in the open air)
2. bonfire (social gathering usually held in the evening around a burning pyre)
3. focus (place where something is concentrated or from which something spreads)
4. cultural or educational center for the promotion of some field of art, science, etc.
5. focus, image point
6. disease focus
7. fireplace, hearth

Hyphenated as

og‧ni‧sko

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔɡˈɲi.skɔ/

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ognisko. By surface analysis, ogień + -isko. Sense 3 and sense 5 are semantic loans from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Sentences

Rozłożymy ognisko za namiotem, tego wilki się boją ! — uspokoili mnie Mongołowie.

We will set up a fire behind the tent, the wolves are afraid of it! — the Mongols reassured me.