шарага
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Russian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originally шара́шкина конто́ра (šaráškina kontóra), the possessive form шара́шкин (šaráškin) is possibly from dialectal шара́нь (šaránʹ, “riffraff, fraudsters”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
шара́га • (šarága) f inan (genitive шара́ги, nominative plural шара́ги, genitive plural шара́г, diminutive шара́жка)
- (colloquial, Soviet Union) sharashka, sharaga (a secret research and development laboratory in the Soviet gulag)
- Synonym: шара́шка (šaráška)
- (colloquial) any office or business producing low quality or dubious goods or services, especially if involved in a fraud
- Synonym: шара́шка (šaráška)
- (youth slang) vocational school
- Synonyms: профессиона́льное техни́ческое учи́лище (professionálʹnoje texníčeskoje učílišče), ПТУ (PTU)
Declension[edit]
Declension of шара́га (inan fem-form velar-stem accent-a)