smak

From Middle Dutch smacken, of imitative origin. See also German schmatzen, English smack, and smash.

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• Rhymes: -ɑk

smak c (plural smakken, diminutive smakje n)

1. crash, blow, smack

• klap
• knal

smak

1. inflection of smakken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• smac, smach, smech, ssmak
• (late) smacche, smake, smatche
• (Ormulum) smacc

Inherited from Old English smæc, smæċċ, from Proto-West Germanic *smakk, *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz. Some forms are influenced by smacchen.

• IPA^(key): /smak/, /smatʃ/

smak

1. The taste (of things).
2. The sense of taste.
3. A smell or odour.
4. (rare) The feeling of joy.
5. (rare) A disgrace or blemish.

• English: smack
• Scots: smack
  • ⇒? Scots: smick

• “smak(ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle Low German smak, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“taste, smack”).

smak m (definite singular smaken, indefinite plural smaker, definite plural smakene)

1. taste (both in food and fashion)

• smake

smak

1. imperative of smake

• “smak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Low German smak, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“taste, smack”).

• IPA^(key): /smɑːk/

smak m (definite singular smaken, indefinite plural smakar, definite plural smakane)

1. taste (both in food and fashion)

   Eg likar smaken av mango.

   I like the taste of mango.

   Han har god smak i musikk.

   He has good taste in music.

smak

1. imperative of smaka

• “smak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Middle Low German smak／smake, from Old Saxon *smakk／*smak, from Proto-West Germanic *smakku. Compare Middle English smak.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /smak/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /smak/

smak m inan (related adjective smaczny)

1. taste (sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of the sensation of taste)

   Alternative form: smaka

   Synonym: smaczność

   • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 60:

     Saporem smak, chancz

     [Saporem smak, chęć]

   • 1880-1894 [XV med.], Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[1], volume I, Lviv, page 75:

     Sicut Christus dilexit vos et tradidit semetipsum pro vobis oblacionem et hostiam [deo] in odorem suauitatis nad szmak, nad wonyą szlotką, roszkoszną

     [Sicut Christus dilexit vos et tradidit semetipsum pro vobis oblacionem et hostiam [deo] in odorem suauitatis nad smak, nad wonią słodką, rozkoszną]

2. taste, flavor (one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals)
   • 1885-2024 [c. 1450], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne‎^[2], volume IV, page 568:

     [Habet] palatum inordinatum smac ma sly

     [[Habet] palatum inordinatum smak ma zły]

• Polish: smak
• Silesian: smak

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “smak”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• smaka (Far Masovian)

Inherited from Old Polish smak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: smak
• Homophone: Smak

smak m inan (diminutive smaczek, related adjective smakowy)

1. (uncountable) taste (sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of the sensation of taste)

   Synonym: podniebienie

   Hypernym: zmysł

   stracić smak ― to lose one's sense of taste

2. (countable) taste, flavor (one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals)

   Ten indyk jest niezły w smaku. ― This turkey tastes quite good.

3. (countable) taste, flavor, smack (quality of giving the sensation of taste) [with genitive ‘of what’]

   smak mięsa ― taste of meat

4. (countable, figurative) taste, smack (small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole) [with genitive ‘of what’]

   Synonym: doświadczenie

   smak przygody ― taste of adventure

6. (uncountable, colloquial) taste, liking, appetite (desire to eat food or consume drink) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

   Synonym: apetyt

   Hypernym: chęć

   smak na czekoladę ― taste for chocolate

7. (uncountable, colloquial, figurative) taste, liking, appetite, penchant, predilection (desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind) [with do (+ genitive) ‘for what’ or (proscribed) dla (+ genitive) ‘for what’]

   Synonyms: apetyt, upodobanie

   Hypernym: chęć

   smak do książek ― taste for books

   stracić smak dla czegoś ― to lose the taste for something

8. (uncountable, figurative) taste (person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.)

   Synonym: gust

   Antonyms: bezguście, kicz

   smak literacki ― literary taste

9. (uncountable, figurative) flavor (characteristic quality of something)

   odkrywać smaki Warszawy ― to discover the flavors of Warsaw

10. (countable, colloquial) flavor, flavoring (substance used to impart a particular taste)

    Zupa jest za mało słona, dodaj trochę smaku. ― The soup is not salty enough, add some flavor.

11. (countable) bouillon, broth, stock (clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken, or bones or vegetables)

    Synonym: bulion

    smak z kości ― bone broth

In colloquial speech, sense 5 can sometimes be animate, especially in such phrases as mieć smaka na coś or robić komuś smaka na coś.

• → Belarusian: смак (smak)
• → Russian: смак (smak)
• → Ukrainian: смак (smak)

Basic tastes in Polish · smaki (layout · text)
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• smak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• smak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• smak in PWN's encyclopedia

smȁk m (Cyrillic spelling сма̏к)

1. end, termination

   smak sv(ij)eta - end of the world

Inherited from Old Swedish smaker, from Middle Low German smak, smake, from Old Saxon *smakk, *smak, from Proto-West Germanic *smakku.

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smak c

1. taste (how something tastes)

   en krämig sås med smak av citron

   a creamy sauce with a taste of lemon

2. the sense of taste, gustation

   Synonym: smaksinne

3. taste (preferences, etc.)

   Den var inte i hans smak

   It wasn't to his taste

   tycke och smak

   opinions and taste (something subjective – idiomatic)

• avsmak
• eftersmak
• finsmakare
• mersmak
• smaken är som baken (“there's no accounting for taste”)
• smakfull (“tasteful”)
• smaklig
• smaklös (“tasteless”)
• smakprov
• smaksinne (“sense of taste, gustation”)

• smaka

• smak in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• smak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• smak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• smak in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)

• kams, mask, mask., skam