sejm

See also: Sejm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish sejm.

Noun

sejm (plural sejms)

1. A political assembly or committee in Poland and the surrounding areas.

Related terms

• Sejm

Polish

sejm

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish sejm, from Proto-Slavic *sъjьmъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛjm/

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

Noun

sejm m inan (related adjective sejmowy)

1. (government) lower house of a bicameral parliament

   Coordinate term: senat

   Hypernym: parlament

   1. lower house (total number of people who sit in the lower house of a parliament)
   2. lower house (building of the lower house of a parliament)
2. (government) parliament (legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers)

   Synonym: parlament

   1. parliament (total number of people who sit in a parliament)

   Synonym: parlament

   1. parliament (building of a parliament)

   Synonym: parlament

3. (ornithology) parliament (large flock of birds gathering in one place before flying off to warm countries)

   Synonym: sejmik

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

Derived terms

nouns

• Sejm
• sejmokracja
• sejmowładztwo

 

verb

• sejmować impf

 

Related terms

adjective

• sejmikowy

 

nouns

• sejmik
• sejmikowicz
• sejmikujący
• sejmujący

 

verb

• sejmikować impf

 

Descendants

• → English: sejm
• → Lithuanian: seĩmas
• → Romanian: seim
• → Russian: сейм (sejm)
• → Ukrainian: сейм (sejm)

Further reading

• sejm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sejm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• sejm in PWN's encyclopedia