заумь

Russian

Etymology

Back-formation from зау́мный (zaúmnyj). Coined by Russian poet, artist, and theorist Aleksei Kruchyonykh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzaʊmʲ]

Noun

за́умь • (záumʹ) f inan (genitive за́уми, nominative plural за́уми, genitive plural за́умей)

1. (colloquial, countable) bollocks, nonsense (that which is silly, illogical, and lacks any meaning, reason, or value; that which does not make sense)
2. (historical, poetry, uncountable) zaum (linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh)

Declension

Declension of за́умь (inan fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	за́умь záumʹ	за́уми záumi
genitive	за́уми záumi	за́умей záumej
dative	за́уми záumi	за́умям záumjam
accusative	за́умь záumʹ	за́уми záumi
instrumental	за́умью záumʹju	за́умями záumjami
prepositional	за́уми záumi	за́умях záumjax

Descendants

• → English: zaum

Further reading

• заумь in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru