Chorzów

English

Etymology

From the Polish Chorzów.

Proper noun

Chorzów

A southern Polish city near Katowice in Silesia on the River Rawa.

Synonyms

(city on the Rawa in southern Poland): Königshütte (German name)

Translations

city on the Rawa in southern Poland

Czech: Chořov
German: Königshütte f
Latin: please add this translation if you can
Polish: Chorzów (pl) m
Russian: Хожув (Xožuv)
Silesian: Chorzůw

Further reading

Chorzów on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Chorzów

Etymology

Unknown. Possible etymologies include:

From chory (“ill”) + -ów, meaning “unhealthy place” or “town of sick people”.
From Chorz + -ów, where Chorz is an archaic personal name, possibly a diminutive of Zachariasz.
From the place name Zversov.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.ʐuf/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔʐuf
Syllabification: Cho‧rzów

Proper noun

Chorzów m

Chorzów (a city in the Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland)

Declension

Declension of Chorzów

	singular
nominative	Chorzów
genitive	Chorzowa
dative	Chorzowowi
accusative	Chorzów
instrumental	Chorzowem
locative	Chorzowie
vocative	Chorzowie

Derived terms

adjective

chorzowski

nouns

Descendants

→ English: Chorzów

Further reading

Chorzów on the Polish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pl
Chorzów in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Chorzów in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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