папугай

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Belarusian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian попуга́й (popugáj).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [papuˈɣaj]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: па‧пу‧гай

Noun

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папуга́й • (papuháj) m animal (genitive папуга́я, nominative plural папуга́і, genitive plural папуга́яў)

  1. parrot
  2. (colloquial, figuratively, sometimes offensive) parrot, parroter (a person who does not have their own point of view, always repeating other people's words and thoughts)

Declension

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Declension of папуга́й (anml soft masc-form accent-a)
singular plural
nominative папуга́й
papuháj 		папуга́і
papuhái
genitive папуга́я
papuhája 		папуга́яў
papuhájaŭ
dative папуга́ю
papuháju 		папуга́ям
papuhájam
accusative папуга́я
papuhája 		папуга́яў
papuhájaŭ
instrumental папуга́ем
papuhájem 		папуга́ямі
papuhájami
locative папуга́і
papuhái 		папуга́ях
papuhájax
count form — папуга́і1
papuhái1

1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

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  1. ^ Martynaŭ, V. U., Tsykhun, G. A., editors (1978–2017), “папугай”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka
  • “папугай”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
  • “папугай” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
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