коляда

Russian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kolęda, from Latin kalendae. Doublet of кале́нды (kaléndy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəlʲɪˈda]

Noun

коляда́ • (koljadá) f anim (genitive коляды́, nominative plural коля́ды, genitive plural коля́д)

1. (uncountable) an extinct Christmas folk tradition, featuring people going around singing Christmas carols and receiving gifts
2. (dialectal, countable) Christmas Eve, Christmas or the Twelve Days of Christmas

Declension

Declension of коляда́ (anim fem-form hard-stem accent-d) 

	singular	plural
nominative	коляда́ koljadá	коля́ды koljády
genitive	коляды́ koljadý	коля́д koljád
dative	коляде́ koljadé	коля́дам koljádam
accusative	коляду́ koljadú	коля́д koljád
instrumental	колядо́й, колядо́ю koljadój, koljadóju	коля́дами koljádami
prepositional	коляде́ koljadé	коля́дах koljádax

Synonyms

• (Christmas Eve): соче́льник (sočélʹnik)
• (Christmas): Рождество́ (Roždestvó), (the Twelve Days of Christmas): свя́тки (svjátki)

Derived terms

• коля́дка (koljádka)
• колядова́ть (koljadovátʹ)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “коляда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress