okno

Inherited from Old Czech okno, from Proto-Slavic *okъnò.

• IPA^(key): [ˈokno]

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• Hyphenation: ok‧no

okno n

1. window

   Někdy se dívám z okna, odtud ze židle. ― Sometimes I look through the window from the chair.

2. (colloquial) blackout

   Mám okno. Co se stalo? ― I have a blackout. What has happened?

• “okno”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “okno”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “okno”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈokno/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈokno/

okno n

1. window
2. sinkhole (depression in marshy soil filled with water)

• Czech: okno

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “okno”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ɔknɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ɔknɔ/

okno n

1. (attested in Masovia, Greater Poland) window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)

   Synonym: okieńce

   • 1879 [1429], Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski, editor, Księga ziemi czerskiej 1404-1425. Liber terrae Cernensis‎^[1], Masovia, page LXXXI:

     Jaco mnye Jan nye dal oken wyrabycz, any drzvi czynycz, alyszbi ischba bila gothowa

     [Jako mnie Jan nie dał okien wyrębić, ani drzwi czynić, aliżby izba była gotowa]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 132r:

     Subscella slvp v okną

     [Subscella slup u okna]

2. well opening (top opening of the well through which the brine was drawn to the ground surface, specially enclosed and secured)
   • 1868 [1457], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎^[2], volume XII, page 251:

     Budko non debet retinere homines transeuntes per viam ad silwas et ad okno salis

     [Budko non debet retinere homines transeuntes per viam ad silwas et ad okno salis]

3. (biblical, attested in Lesser Poland) gates and locks that stop the heavenly waters from falling to the ground
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki‎^[3], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego, pages 41, 9:

     Gløbocoscz gløbocoscz wziwa w glosse oken (cataractarum) twogich

     [Głębokość głębokość wzywa w głosie okien (cataractarum) twojich]

• Polish: okno
• Silesian: ôkno

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “okno”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “okno”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “okno”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “okno”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “okno”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъnò. First attested in 1473.

okno n

1. window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
2. (figuratively, biblical) window (gate to Heaven)
3. window (shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening)
4. window (pane or glass of a window opening)
5. (by extension) window (any opening similar to a window)

• Slovak: okno

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “okno”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Inherited from Old Polish okno.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔknɔ
• Syllabification: ok‧no
• Homophone: Okno

okno n (diminutive okienko, related adjective okienny)

1. window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)
2. window (opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window)
3. window (shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening)
4. window (glass or pane of a window opening)
5. window (any free place that allows light to pass through and allows one to see something or look inside something)
6. (graphical user interface) window (rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes)
7. (mining) ventilation hole pierced in a coal wall between excavations
8. opening of an animal's dwelling hole
9. (rare, obsolete) window (period of time when something is available or possible)

   Synonym: okienko

10. (obsolete, engineering) opening in an engine cylinder

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), okno is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 3 times in essays, 63 times in fiction, and 35 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 126 times, making it the 475th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• okno in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• okno in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okno”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
• “OKNO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 16.08.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “okno”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 736
• okno in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъno.

• IPA^(key): /ǒkno/
• Hyphenation: ok‧no

òkno n (Cyrillic spelling о̀кно)

1. pane (of windows)
2. shaft, pit (in mines)
3. (Kajkavian) window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)

   Synonyms: prozor, oblok, ponistra

• “okno”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *okъno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔknɔ/

okno n

1. window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)

   Synonym: oblok

• okienko n
• oknár m
• okenný

• “okno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

From Proto-Slavic *okъno.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːknɔ/

ókno n

1. window (opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	ôkno
gen. sing.	ôkna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôkno	ôkni	ôkna
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ôkna	ôken	ôken
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôknu	ôknoma	ôknom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ôkno	ôkni	ôkna
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôknu	ôknih	ôknih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ôknom	ôknoma	ôkni

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “okno”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024