вясёлка

Belarusian

вясёлка

Alternative forms

• viasiołka — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Etymology

From вясёлы (vjasjóly) +‎ -ка (-ka). Cognate with Russian весёлка (vesjólka) and Ukrainian весе́лка (vesélka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vʲaˈsʲoɫka]

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• Rhymes: -oɫka
• Hyphenation: вя‧сёл‧ка

Noun

вясёлка • (vjasjólka) f inan (genitive вясёлкі, nominative plural вясёлкі, genitive plural вясёлак, relational adjective вясёлкавы)

1. (meteorology) rainbow (a multi-colored arc-shaped band in the sky, which arises from the refraction of the sun's rays in raindrops)

   Synonym: ра́дуга (ráduha)

   • 1940 [1882], Mark Twain, translated by Janka Maŭr, Прынц і жабрак, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Prince and the Pauper, page 169:

     Ён адчуваў сябе, як чалавек, які вышаў палюбавацца вясёлкай, а замест таго яго ўдарыла маланка.

     Jon adčuvaw sjabje, jak čalavjek, jaki vyšaw paljubavacca vjasjólkaj, a zamjest tahó jahó wdaryla malanka.

     [original: He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.]

     He felt like a man, who went out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning instead.

Declension

Declension of вясёлка (inan velar fem-form accent-a reduc)

	singular	plural
nominative	вясёлка vjasjólka	вясёлкі vjasjólki
genitive	вясёлкі vjasjólki	вясёлак vjasjólak
dative	вясёлцы vjasjólcy	вясёлкам vjasjólkam
accusative	вясёлку vjasjólku	вясёлкі vjasjólki
instrumental	вясёлкай, вясёлкаю vjasjólkaj, vjasjólkaju	вясёлкамі vjasjólkami
locative	вясёлцы vjasjólcy	вясёлках vjasjólkax
count form	—	вясёлкі1 vjasjólki1

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

References

• “вясёлка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
• “вясёлка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org