помана

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Ukrainian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Possibly reborrowing from Romanian pomană (alms, charity), which is from the same root as Ukrainian помина́ти (pomynáty, to remember). Compare Serbo-Croatian помана (feast) (attested among Serbo-Croatian minority speakers in Romania).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

пома́на (pománaf inan (genitive пома́ни, nominative plural пома́ни, genitive plural пома́н)

  1. (Bukovina, folklore) gifts given in memory of a deceased person. Often Easter breads such as ба́бка (bábka) (babka) and па́ска (páska) (paska) distributed to the congregants following Easter or про́води (próvody).

Declension

[edit]