Sejm

Sejm

See also: sejm

English

Alternative forms

• Seym

Etymology

From Polish Sejm.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sām, IPA^(key): /seɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm
• Homophone: same

Proper noun

Sejm

1. The lower house of the Polish parliament.

Translations

the lower house of the Polish parliament

Belarusian: Сейм m (Sjejm), Сэйм m (Sejm) Bulgarian: Сейм m (Sejm) Czech: Sejm (cs) m Danish: sejm c Estonian: Seim French: Diète (fr) f German: Sejm m Greek: Σέιμ (Séim), Δίαιτα f (Díaita) Hungarian: szejm Latvian: Sejms m Lithuanian: Seimas m Macedonian: Сејм m (Sejm) Polish: Sejm (pl) m Russian: Сейм (ru) m (Sejm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Се̏јм m Roman: Sȅjm (sh) m Slovak: Sejm m Ukrainian: Сейм m (Sejm) Yiddish: סיים‎ m (seym)

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Polish

Etymology

From sejm, from Old Polish sejm, from Proto-Slavic *sъjьmъ, from *sъ- (“from, with”), *jęti (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛjm/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛjm
• Syllabification: Sejm
• Homophone: sejm

Proper noun

Sejm m inan

1. Sejm, the lower house of Polish parliament

   Coordinate term: Senat

2. (historical, pre-1946) the whole Polish parliament, including both houses

Noun

Sejm m inan

1. (historical) any specific gathering of the Sejm

Declension

Declension of Sejm

	singular	plural
nominative	Sejm	Sejmy
genitive	Sejmu	Sejmów
dative	Sejmowi	Sejmom
accusative	Sejm	Sejmy
instrumental	Sejmem	Sejmami
locative	Sejmie	Sejmach
vocative	Sejmie	Sejmy

Descendants

• → English: Sejm
• → Yiddish: סיים‎ (seym)

Further reading

• Sejm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Sejm in Polish dictionaries at PWN