шелаш

Eastern Mari

Etymology

From Proto-Mari, from Proto-Uralic *śälä-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeˈlɑʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑʃ
• Hyphenation: ше‧лаш

Verb

шелаш • (šelaš) (type I conjugation)

1. (intransitive) to break, to splinter, to split, to crack
2. to be hurt, to be injured (by an impact)
3. to chop, to split
4. (transitive) to separate, to divide
5. (transitive) to divide, to split up, to break
6. to hit, to strike, to hurt, to injure
7. (figuratively) to disrupt, to break (silence, darkness)
8. (figuratively) to shoot, to fire
9. (figuratively) to go hard at something, to do something intensely [+ гына/веле]

References

• J. Bradley et al. (2023) “шелаш”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna