лебедь
Appearance
Russian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *elbedь, *elbędь, *olbǫdь, from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ле́бедь • (lébedʹ) m anim (genitive ле́бедя, nominative plural ле́беди, genitive plural лебеде́й, female equivalent лебёдка, relational adjective лебеди́ный or лебя́жий)
ле́бедь • (lébedʹ) f anim (genitive ле́беди, nominative plural ле́беди, genitive plural лебеде́й, relational adjective лебеди́ный or лебя́жий) (poetic)
- swan
- (figurative, historical) one-hundred- or two-hundred-rouble note
- Synonym: бе́лый ле́бедь (bélyj lébedʹ)
- 1873, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава тринадцатая”, in Очарованный странник, Санкт-Петербург: Русский мир; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Enchanted Wanderer, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:
- Да с э́тим враз ру́ку за па́зуху, вы́нул из па́чки сторублёвого ле́бедя, да и ша́ркнул его́ на подно́с.
- Da s étim vraz rúku za pázuxu, výnul iz páčki storubljóvovo lébedja, da i šárknul jevó na podnós.
- And with that I thrust my hand into my breast pocket, took a hundred-rouble swan from the wad, and slapped it down on the tray.
Declension
[edit]neutral-style:
Declension of ле́бедь (anim masc-form soft-stem accent-e)
poetic-style/literary:
Declension of ле́бедь (anim fem-form 3rd-decl accent-e)
Derived terms
[edit]- лебедёнок m anim (lebedjónok)
- лебеди́ный (lebedínyj)
- лебёдка f anim or f inan (lebjódka)
- лебя́жий (lebjážij)
- Ле́бедь (Lébedʹ)
Compounds:
- умира́ющий ле́бедь (umirájuščij lébedʹ)
Descendants
[edit]- → Karelian:
- South Karelian: lebedi
See also
[edit]- ле́бедь-клику́н (lébedʹ-klikún)
- ле́бедь-шипун (lébedʹ-šipun)
- ле́бедь-труба́ч (lébedʹ-trubáč)
- ма́лый ле́бедь (mályj lébedʹ)
- чёрный ле́бедь (čórnyj lébedʹ)
- черношейный ле́бедь (černošejnyj lébedʹ)
- ту́ндровый ле́бедь (túndrovyj lébedʹ), америка́нский ле́бедь (amerikánskij lébedʹ)
References
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лебедь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “лебедь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 471
Further reading
[edit]- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “лебедь”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
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- ru:Swans
