agitować

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English agitate. Possible borrowed from German agitieren or from French agiter,[1][2] ultimately from Latin āgitō +‎ -ować. First attested in 1616.[3][4][5]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ɡiˈtɔ.vat͡ɕ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: a‧gi‧to‧wać

Verb

agitować impf (perfective zaagitować or rozagitować or wyagitować)

  1. (transitive, politics) to agitate, to doorstep, to campaign (to convince to adopt certain views) [+accusative = whom] or [+ wśród (genitive) = whom], [+ do (genitive) = to what] or [+ na rzecz (genitive) = on behalf of what] or [+ przeciw (dative) = against what] or [+ za (instumental) = for what] or [+ żeby (sentence) = to do what]
    nachalnie agitować ― to agitate persistently/intrusively
    osobiście agitować ― to agitate personally
    mocno agitować ― to agitate heavily
    agitować wprost ― to agitate directly
    zacząć agitować ― to start to agitate
    próbować agitować ― to try to agitate
    agitować wyborców ― to canvass for votes
    'agitować mieszkańców ― to agitate residents/inhabitants
    agitować młodzież ― to agitate the youth
    agitować ludzi ― to agitate people
    ulotki agitujące ― agitating flyers
    plakaty agitujące ― agitating posters
    hasła agitujące ― agitating slogans
  2. (transitive, Middle Polish, of topics) to agitate (to set in motion; to actuate)[3]
  3. (transitive, Middle Polish, of physical objects) to agitate (to set in motion)[3]
  4. (transitive, Middle Polish, of emotions) to agitate, to incite, to start up[3]
  5. (reflexive, politics) to agitate, to doorstep, to campaign each other
  6. (reflexive, obsolete, of topics) to be agitated (to be set in motion; to be actuated)
  7. (reflexive, Middle Polish, of physical objects) to be agitated (to be set in motion)[3]

Conjugation

adjectives
adverb
nouns

References

  1. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  3. Teresa Sokołowska (04.05.2014), “AGITOWAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. Teresa Sokołowska (16.02.2016), “AGITOWAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  5. agitować in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  • Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

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