# kolej
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkolɛj]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ko‧lej

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Czech kolejě, from Proto-Slavic *kolěja.

#### Noun

kolej f
* rut, track, groove
* railway track

##### Related terms

* kolejiště n
* kolejnice f
* vykolejit

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin collēgium.

#### Noun

kolej f
* hall of residence

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “kolej”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “kolej”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “kolej”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* kolij, koli (Middle Polish)
* koleja (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish koleja, with an unexpected loss of -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lɛj/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈkɔ.lɛj/, /ˈkɔ.lej/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔlɛj
* Syllabification: ko‧lej

### Noun

kolej f (related adjective kolejowy)
* (countable) rail, railway (transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods)
    Synonyms: kolej żelazna, droga żelazna
* (countable) rail, railway (enterprise dealing with rail transportation)
    Polskie Koleje Państwowe ― Polish State Railways
* (countable) train (vehicle that moves on rails)
    Synonym: pociąg
* (countable) rail (route designated by tracks)
* (countable) rail, railway (wagons or lifts placed on a rope or tracks that lead to a mountain peak)
* (uncountable) turn (appropriate time for a person to take an action i.e. in a game) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for whom/what’]
    Near-synonym: pora
    Jest twoja kolej. ― It's your turn.
* (chiefly in the plural) order (natural sequence of events)
    Near-synonym: następstwo
* (countable, obsolete) rut (furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground)
    Synonym: koleina
* (countable, obsolete) hairdo (particular way in which one places their hair)

#### Derived terms

* kolejny
* po kolei
* z kolei
* koleina
* kolej podziemna
* kolej żelazna
* kolejarz
* kolejka
* mieć nie po kolei w głowie impf

#### Related terms

* kolejnictwo
* kolejność

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kolej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 18 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 112 times, making it the 548th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kolej”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 183

### Further reading

* kolej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* kolej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kolej”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “KOLEJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 01.12.2010
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kolej”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 398

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French collège.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koleʒ]
* Hyphenation: ko‧lej

### Noun

kolej (definite accusative koleji, plural kolejler)
* (art) college

#### Declension
### References

* kolej on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{tr}$