Zawada (family name)
Zawada is a Polish family name .
origin
- Zawada is a nickname for Polish zawada , meaning "obstacle, difficulty, resistance".
- Derivation from the Czech závada also means "lack, error, damage, infirmity".
pronunciation
Polish [ zaˈvada ].
Name bearer
Zawada is the family name of the following people:
- Andrzej Zawada (alpinist) (1928-2000), Polish alpinist
- Andrzej Zawada (literary historian) (* 1948), Polish literary historian, literary critic, essayist and university professor
- Filip Zawada (* 1975), Polish poet, musician and photographer
- Magdalena Zawada (* 1985), Polish natural track tobogganist
- Oskar Zawada (* 1996), Polish football player
- Sławomir Zawada (* 1965), Polish weightlifter
- Tadeusz Zawada (* 1951), Polish cyclist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden Familiennames , Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 , p. 739.