Sejm

See also: sejm

English

Alternative forms

• Seym

Pronunciation

• enPR: sām, IPA^(key): /seɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm
• Homophone: same

Etymology 1

From Polish Sejm.

Proper noun

Sejm

1. The lower house of the Polish parliament.

Translations

the lower house of the Polish parliament

• Belarusian: Сейм m (Sjejm), Сэйм m (Sejm)
• Bulgarian: Сейм m (Sejm)
• Czech: Sejm (cs) m
• Danish: sejm c
• Estonian: Seim
• French: Diète (fr) f
• German: Sejm m
• Greek: Σέιμ (Séim), Δίαιτα f (Díaita)
• Hungarian: szejm (hu)
• Latvian: Sejms m
• Lithuanian: Seimas m
• Macedonian: Сејм m (Sejm)
• Polish: Sejm (pl) m
• Russian: Сейм (ru) m (Sejm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Се̏јм m

  Roman: Sȅjm (sh) m

• Slovak: Sejm m
• Ukrainian: Сейм m (Sejm)
• Yiddish: סיים m (seym)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Sejm

1. Alternative form of Seym (“river”)

German

Sejm

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Sejm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛɪ̯m/
• Hyphenation: Sejm

Proper noun

Sejm m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sejms)

1. (government) Sejm (the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland)
   • 2023 December 12, Nadia Pantel, “Antisemitischer Eklat in Warschau: Rechtsextremer Abgeordneter attackiert Chanukka-Feier im Parlament mit Feuerlöscher”, in Der Spiegel‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Im polnischen Parlament, dem Sejm, hat ein rechtsextremer Abgeordneter am Dienstagnachmittag eine Chanukka-Feier angegriffen.

     A far-right member of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, attacked a Hanukkah celebration on Tuesday afternoon.

Declension

Declension of Sejm [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Sejm
genitive	eines	des	Sejms
dative	einem	dem	Sejm
accusative	einen	den	Sejm

Further reading

• “Sejm” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Sejm” in Duden online
• “Sejm”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Sejm” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Polish

Sejm sense 1

Sejm sense 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛjm/

• Audio 1:

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• Rhymes: -ɛjm
• Syllabification: Sejm
• Homophone: sejm

Etymology 1

From sejm.

Proper noun

Sejm m inan (related adjective sejmowy)

2. (government) Sejm (the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland)

   Coordinate term: Senat

   1. Sejm (total number of people who sit in the Sejm)
   2. Sejm (building of the Sejm)
3. (government, historical, pre-1946) the whole Polish parliament, including both houses

Declension

Declension of Sejm

	singular
nominative	Sejm
genitive	Sejmu
dative	Sejmowi
accusative	Sejm
instrumental	Sejmem
locative	Sejmie
vocative	Sejmie

Noun

Sejm m inan

1. (government, historical) any specific gathering of the Sejm

Declension

Declension of Sejm

	singular	plural
nominative	Sejm	Sejmy
genitive	Sejmu	Sejmów
dative	Sejmowi	Sejmom
accusative	Sejm	Sejmy
instrumental	Sejmem	Sejmami
locative	Sejmie	Sejmach
vocative	Sejmie	Sejmy

Related terms

adjectives

• sejmikowy

 

nouns

• sejm
• sejmik
• sejmikowicz
• sejmikujący
• sejmokracja
• sejmowładztwo
• sejmujący

 

verbs

• sejmikować impf
• sejmować impf

 

Descendants

• → English: Sejm
• → German: Sejm
• → Latvian: Saeima
• → Lithuanian: Seĩmas
• → Romanian: Seim
• → Russian: Сейм (Sejm)
• → Ukrainian: Сейм (Sejm)
• → Yiddish: סיים (seym)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian Сейм (Sejm).

Proper noun

Sejm m inan

2. Seym (a river in Russia and Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Sejm

	singular
nominative	Sejm
genitive	Sejmu
dative	Sejmowi
accusative	Sejm
instrumental	Sejmem
locative	Sejmie
vocative	Sejmie

Further reading

• Sejm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Sejm in PWN's encyclopedia