# technika
## Czech
### Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Technik or French technique, ultimately from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛxnɪka]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

technika f
* technology (body of tools)
* technique (way of accomplishing a task)

#### Derived terms

* technický

#### Related terms

* technik
* technikálie
* techno
* technolog
* technologický
* technologie

### Noun

technika
* genitive/accusative singular of technik

### References

* ↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “technika”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “technika”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “technika”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “technika”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From German Technik, from French technique, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, handicraft”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛçnikɒ], [ˈtɛxnikɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tech‧ni‧ka
* Rhymes: -kɒ

### Noun

technika (countable and uncountable, plural technikák)
* technique (a way of accomplishing a task that is not immediately obvious)
* technology (the organization of knowledge for practical purposes)

#### Derived terms

* technikai
* technikájú
* technikás
* aerotechnika
* agrotechnika
* elektrotechnika
* pirotechnika
* politechnika
* pszichotechnika
* videotechnika
* beszédtechnika
* biztonságtechnika
* csomagolástechnika
* haditechnika
* híradástechnika
* irányítástechnika
* irodatechnika
* játéktechnika
* méréstechnika
* nyomdatechnika
* rádiótechnika
* sajtótechnika
* számítástechnika
* színpadtechnika
* vákuumtechnika
* verstechnika
* vezetéstechnika
* világítástechnika

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
* ↑ For the sound [x], see Gósy, Mária (2004), Fonetika, a beszéd tudománya (“Phonetics, the Study of Speech”), Budapest: Osiris, →ISBN, p. 161

### Further reading

* technika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish technika.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
* Rhymes: -ika
* Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

### Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny or technikòwi)
* technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)
* technology (knowledge or study on such methods)

#### Related terms

* techniczno
* technik

### Further reading

* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “technika”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “technika”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Internationalism; ultimately from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós).

### Noun

tèchnika f (plural tèchnikos) stress pattern 1
* technology
* technique

#### See also

* technikas
* technologija

### Further reading

* “technika”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “technika”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

## Polish
### Etymology 1

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Technik or French technique, ultimately from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós). First attested in 1801.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (prescriptive) /ˈtɛx.ɲi.ka/, (colloquial) /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛxɲika, -ika
* Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

#### Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny, abbreviation techn. or tech.)
* technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)
    Synonym: metoda
* technology (knowledge or study on such methods)
* technique (application of such methods)
* technique (practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill)
    Synonym: metoda
* (education) technique (subject teaching such methods in school)
    Synonym: prace ręczne
* (education, obsolete) Synonym of technikum

##### Derived terms

* agrotechnika
* antropotechnika
* balneotechnika

##### Descendants

* → Kashubian: technika
* → Silesian: technika

##### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), technika is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 31 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 775th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
* Rhymes: -ika
* Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

#### Noun

technika m pers
* genitive/accusative singular of technik

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
* Rhymes: -ika
* Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

#### Noun

technika n
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of technikum

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “technika”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “technika”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Michał Szulc (1801) Mowa o architekturze miana na publicznem posiedzeniu Uniwersytetu roku 1801 (in Polish), page 20
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “technika”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 598

### Further reading

* technika in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* technika in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “technika”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “technika”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 37

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish technika.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ika
* Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

### Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny)
* technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)
* technology (knowledge or study on such methods)

#### Related terms

* technicznie

### Further reading

* technika in silling.org