сябар

See also: сабар

Belarusian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic сѧбръ (sębrŭ), from Proto-Slavic *sębrъ. Cognate with Ukrainian сябер (sjaber), dialectal Russian сябёр (sjabjór), Serbo-Croatian sȅbar, Slovene sreber, and loans from Slavic: Albanian sëmbër, Greek σέμπρος (sémpros), Romanian sâmbră.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲabar]

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Noun

ся́бар • (sjábar) m pers (genitive ся́бра, nominative plural сябры́, genitive plural сябро́ў, feminine сябро́ўка, relational adjective сябро́ўскі)

1. friend

   Synonyms: пры́яцель (prýjacjelʹ), друг (druh)

Declension

Declension of ся́бар (pr hard masc-form accent-c reduc)

	singular	plural
nominative	ся́бар sjábar	сябры́ sjabrý
genitive	ся́бра sjábra	сябро́ў sjabróŭ
dative	ся́бру sjábru	сябра́м sjabrám
accusative	ся́бра sjábra	сябро́ў sjabróŭ
instrumental	ся́брам sjábram	сябра́мі sjabrámi
locative	ся́бру sjábru	сябра́х sjabráx
count form	—	ся́бры1 sjábry1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Related terms

• сябро́ўскі (sjabróŭski)

References

• “сябар” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “сябер”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress