Obrazow

Obrazów is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun obraz, which means an image or painting. In Polish, the nominative plural is obrazy, while the singular genitive is obrazu; obrazów is used to express a quantity, possession, or a partitive sense in the genitive plural.

The form is common in phrases that describe collections, sets, or amounts of images. For example, kilka obrazów means a few paintings, katalog obrazów means a catalog of images, and liczba obrazów w muzeum means the number of images in the museum. Other typical usages include zbiór obrazów (a collection of paintings) and galeria obrazów (a gallery of pictures). The word thus functions as a word for “of images” or “of paintings” within larger noun phrases.

Orthography notes: the standard Polish spelling uses the diacritic ó, written as obrazów. In non-Polish contexts or when diacritics are unavailable, it may appear as obrazow, though this is nonstandard in proper Polish typography.

Beyond its role in ordinary language, Obrazów can appear as a proper noun in toponymy or surnames in Polish contexts, in which case it would be capitalized (e.g., Obrazów). In such uses, it would refer to a place name or a family name rather than to the generic term for images. Overall, obrazów is primarily a grammatical form used to talk about images or paintings within Polish sentences.