Uprowadowienie

Uprowadowienie is a term that appears in Polish-language texts but is not commonly recognized as a standard word in major dictionaries. In normative usage, the act of abducting or kidnapping a person is described with uprowadzenie or porwanie, and the related verb is uprowadzić.

The noun uprowadzenie is widely used in legal, journalistic, and formal contexts to denote the unlawful removal of a person against their will, often involving force or coercion. The verb uprowadzić and its nominal form uprowadzenie are the conventional forms for describing this act in Polish. The form uprowadowienie is rarely attested and is generally regarded as nonstandard or a misspelling; readers encountering it are usually advised to replace it with uprowadzenie or porwanie, depending on the context.

Etymology and usage notes: the word appears to be formed from the verb uprowadzić, which means to lead away or to abduct, with a regional or nonstandard noun-forming variation. Because oficjalne and widely cited sources prefer uprowadzenie, uprowadowienie tends to be flagged as nonstandard in linguistic references. In everyday language, porwanie is also a common term for kidnapping, sometimes with a stronger emphasis on the act of seizing a person by force.

See also: uprowadzenie, porwanie, porywanie, zbrodnie przeciwko wolności osobistej.

Note: The dominant and widely accepted terms for the crime are uprowadzenie and porwanie; uprowadowienie is not established as a standard lexical item in Polish.