What is "sejm"

congress of the Polish republic, 1690s, from Polish sejm "assembly," from *syn-imu, literally "a taking together," from *syn- "together" (see syn-) + PIE root *em- "to take" (see exempt).

The Sejm'' of the Republic of Poland (; ) is the lower house of the Polish parliament. It consists of 460 deputies ( posłowie'', literally "envoys", in Polish) elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland" (Marszałek Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej). In the Kingdom of Poland, "Sejm" referred to the entire three- chamber parliament of Poland, comprising the lower house (the Chamber of Envoys; ), the upper house (the Senate; Polish: Senat) and the King. It was thus a three-estate parliament. Since the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), "Sejm" has referred only to the lower house of the parliament; the upper house is called the Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ("Senate of the Republic of Poland").

Sejm is a generic Polish word meaning "a gathering or diet (assembly)". More specifically, it may refer to:

• Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), the lower chamber of the parliament of Poland
• Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, the parliament of Kingdom of Poland
• Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, common parliament of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Confederated sejm (sejm skonfederowany)
• Convocation sejm (sejm konwokacyjny)
• Coronation sejm (sejm koronacyjny)
• Election sejm (sejm elekcyjny)
• Contract Sejm (sejm kontraktowy), 1989–1991
• Convocation Sejm (1764) (sejm konwokacyjny 1764 r.)
• Election Sejm of 1632 (sejm elekcyjny 1632 r.)
• Great Sejm (Sejm Wielki), 1788–1792
• Grodno Sejm (Sejm Grodzieński), 1793
• Pacification Sejm (Sejm Pacyfikacyjny), 1736
• Partition Sejm (Sejm Rozbiorowy), 1773–1776
• Repnin Sejm (Sejm Repninowski), 1767–1768
• Silent Sejm (Sejm Niemy), 1717
• Galician Sejm (Sejm Galicyjski), legislature of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, 1861–1918
• Saeima, the parliament of Latvia
• Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania
  • For historical Lithuanian parliamentary assemblies, see: Template: Seimas of Lithuania
• Sejm of Four Lands, or Council of Four Lands (Sejm Czterech Ziem, Va'ad Arba' Aratzot), central Jewish authority in Poland, 1580–1764
• Sejm of the Republic of Central Lithuania (Sejm Litwy Środkowej), see: Republic of Central Lithuania general election, 1922
• Sejmik (diminutive of sejm), a regional or local legislature in Poland
  • Voivodeship sejmik (sejmik województwa)
• Silesian Sejm or Silesian Parliament (Sejm Śląski), legislature of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, 1920–1939
• Sojm, the parliament of the historical unrecognized state of Carpatho-Ukraine