колтун
Russian
Etymology
Cognate with Belarusian каўтун (kaŭtun), Ukrainian ковтун (kovtun), and Polish kołtun.
Pronunciation
Noun
колту́н • (koltún) m inan (genitive колтуна́, nominative plural колтуны́, genitive plural колтуно́в)
- densely matted hair, Polish plait
- 1926, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков (Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov), “Полотенце с петухом”, in Медицинский работник [Medical Worker]; republished as “The Towel with a Cockerel Motif”, in Hugh Aplin, transl., A Young Doctor's Notebook, Alma Classics, 2011:
- Све́тлые, чуть рыжева́тые во́лосы све́шивались со стола́ сби́вшимся засо́хшим колтуно́м.
- Svétlyje, čutʹ ryževátyje vólosy svéšivalisʹ so stolá sbívšimsja zasóxšim koltunóm.
- Fair, slightly reddish hair hung down from the table in disorder, dry and matted with plica polonica.
Declension
Declension of колту́н (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-b)
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