молва
See also: молвя
Russian
Etymology
From Old East Slavic мълва (mŭlva), from Proto-Slavic *mъlva; cognates include Old Church Slavonic млъва (mlŭva, “noise, mourning”), Ukrainian мо́ва (móva, “language”), Belarusian мо́ва (móva, “language”), Polish mowa (“language”), Bulgarian мълва́ (mǎlvá, “rumour”), Czech mluva.
Pronunciation
Noun
молва́ • (molvá) f inan (genitive молвы́, uncountable)
- rumour/rumor, talk, hearsay
- 1849, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova:
- Почти́ всю́ду носи́лась молва́ о его́ неограни́ченном честолю́бии.
- Počtí vsjúdu nosílasʹ molvá o jevó neograníčennom čestoljúbii.
- Almost everywhere floated the rumor of his unbounded ambition.
Declension
Related terms
- молвь f (molvʹ)
- обмо́лвка f (obmólvka)
- недомо́лвка f (nedomólvka)
- перемо́лвка f (peremólvka)
- размо́лвка f (razmólvka)
- помо́лвка f (pomólvka)
- мо́лвить (mólvitʹ)
- безмо́лвный (bezmólvnyj)
- безмо́лвно (bezmólvno)
- помо́лвленный (pomólvlennyj)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “молва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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