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lać.

to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Polski language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈlat͡ɕ//lɒt͡ɕ/Middle, Polish[ˈlat͡ɕ][ˈlat͡ɕ]
  1. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another)

    imperfective · transitive
    Budowniczy lali beton na fundamenty, gdy zdarzył się wypadek.
  2. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another) synonym of oblewać

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  3. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another) synonym of rozlewać

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  4. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another) to pour (to get drunk; to give someone drinks)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  5. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another) synonym of wylewać (“to pour out, to let out of oneself”)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  6. to pour (to cause a liquid to flow from one place to another) synonym of przelewać się (“to overflow, to be overflowing”)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · intransitive · transitive
  7. to pour (to precipitate, fall intensely)

    imperfective · intransitive
    Nie wychodź na dwór, od rana leje.
  8. to piss, to take a leak (to urinate)

    imperfective · intransitive · vulgar
    To nie Wersal, lej pod jakieś drzewko.
  9. to wallop (to beat, to strike hard causing pain)

    colloquial · dialectal · imperfective · transitive
    Czego mnie lejesz, to był tylko żart!
  10. to wallop (to beat, to strike hard causing pain) to kill, to murder; to hurt

    Middle · Polish · colloquial · dialectal · imperfective · transitive
  11. to wallop (to win against in a war or sports event)

    imperfective · transitive
  12. to cast (to obtain a specific shape by pouring liquid metal into a mold for it to solidify)

    imperfective · transitive
  13. to piss on (to consider a thing, phenomenon or person that must be taken into account as of little importance, without caring about it at all)

    colloquial · imperfective · intransitive · vulgar
    Leję na to.
  14. to laugh

    colloquial · imperfective · intransitive · reflexive
  15. to lay a wind egg (to lay an egg without a shell (burchla))

    imperfective · transitive
    Kokosz burchle leje.
  16. to pour; to blurt; to blather (to write or say quickly, with a flourish)

    imperfective · obsolete · transitive
  17. to pour; to stream (to flow from somewhere in large quantities)

    imperfective · reflexive
    Brudna woda lała się do piwnicy.
  18. to pour; to stream (to flow from somewhere in large quantities) to pour; to stream (to flow from somewhere in large quantities)

    imperfective · intransitive · reflexive
    Idzie woda a nie leje.
    Z góry woda leje.
  19. to pour; to stream (to flow from somewhere in large quantities) synonym of rozlewać się

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · reflexive
  20. to pour; to stream (to flow from somewhere in large quantities) synonym of wlewać się

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · reflexive
  21. to douse each other (to pour some liquid substance onto each other)

    imperfective · reflexive
  22. to wallop each other (to beat one another)

    colloquial · imperfective · reflexive
  23. to pour; to stream (to affect too strongly)

    imperfective · reflexive · usually
  24. to flow (to fall freely without being tight to the body parts)

    imperfective · reflexive
  25. to be cast (to gain a specific shape by being poured into a mold solidifying)

    imperfective · obsolete · reflexive
  26. to flub (to answer a lesson incorrectly)

    imperfective · obsolete · reflexive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьjati.

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