proza

From earlier prosa, a borrowing (first attested in the early 17th century) from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātio (“a straightforward speech- i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). Previously borrowed in Middle Dutch as prose (from Old French prose), a form which lived on in Modern Dutch as proos, prose, prooze. These forms however have been entirely displaced by proza.

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• Hyphenation: pro‧za

proza n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. prose

   Synonym: poëzie

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “proza”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.za/

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• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Syllabification: pro‧za

Borrowed from French prose.

proza f

1. (literature) prose (written language not intended as poetry)

   Synonym: beletrystyka

   Antonym: poezja

2. (literature) prose (work written in prose)
3. (figuratively) everyday ordinary things and affairs, of little interest

Borrowed from German Brause.

proza f

1. (dialectal, colloquial, dated) baking soda; sodium bicarbonate or historically sodium carbonate

   Synonyms: brołza, broza, prołza

• “proza”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “proza”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from German Prosa.

• IPA^(key): /prǒːza/
• Hyphenation: pro‧za

próza f (Cyrillic spelling про́за)

1. (uncountable) prose

Borrowed from Russian про́за (próza).

proza

1. prose

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “проза”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika