тормоз
Russian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τόρμος (tórmos, “socket into which a pin or peg is inserted”), See Russian etymological dictionary—Terence R. Wade, Terence Leslie Brian Wade.
Oleg Trubachev thinks Greek origin is unlikely. Nikolai Dmitriev suggests adoption from Turkic turmaz ("not stoppable" or "pad for the wheel of waggon"). See «Лексикографический сборник», 3, 1958, p. 45
Pronunciation
Noun
то́рмоз • (tórmoz) m inan (genitive то́рмоза, nominative plural тормоза́, genitive plural тормозо́в)
- brake, brakes
- (figuratively) drag
- (figuratively) slow-witted person, retard
Declension
Declension of то́рмоз (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-c irreg)
Derived terms
- тормози́ть (tormozítʹ)
- тормозно́й (tormoznój)
Descendants
- Armenian: տորմուզ (tormuz)
- Azerbaijani: tormoz, tormuz
- Kazakh: тормез (tormez)
- Kyrgyz: тормоз (tormoz)
- Mongolian: тоормос (toormos)
- Persian: ترمز (tormoz)
- Tajik: тормоз (tormoz)
- Turkmen: tormoz
- Uzbek: tormoz
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тормоз”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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