pysanka

English

Alternative forms

• pisanka

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian пи́санка (pýsanka), from писа́ти (pysáty, “to write”), referring to writing on an egg with a stylus in a wax-resist dyeing process, from Proto-Slavic *pьsati, related to *pьstrъ (“feathered”), + feminine ending -ка (-ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsəŋkə/
• Hyphenation: pys‧an‧ka

Noun

pysanka (plural pysankas or pysanky)

1. A hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter egg with intricate designs.

Synonyms

• Ukrainian Easter egg

Translations

Easter egg decorated with intricate designs

• Belarusian: пі́санка f (písanka)
• Bulgarian: пи́сано яйце́ n (písano jajcé)
• Carpathian Rusyn: крашанка f (krašanka), писанка f (pysanka)
• Czech: kraslice (cs) n
• French: pysanka (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: hímestojás
• Polish: pisanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pêssanka f
• Russian: пи́санка (ru) f (písanka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѝсаница f

  Roman: pìsanica (sh) f

• Ukrainian: пи́санка f (pýsanka)

References

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “писати”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Anagrams

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