забота

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Russian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old East Slavic зобота (zobota), from Proto-Slavic [Term?], possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (to watch, show).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (to watch, to look), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (to look after, care for) (whence English keep). Also compare Ukrainian забо́та (zabóta), Slovene zóbati.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [zɐˈbotə]
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

забо́та (zabótaf inan (genitive забо́ты, nominative plural забо́ты, genitive plural забо́т)

  1. care
  2. concern, anxiety, worry, trouble
    • 1958, “Песня о тревожной молодости (Song of the Restless Youth)”, Lev Oshanin (lyrics), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music)‎[1]:
      Забота у нас простая,
      Забота наша такая:
      Жила бы страна родная,
      И нету других забот!
      Zabota u nas prostaja,
      Zabota naša takaja:
      Žila by strana rodnaja,
      I netu drugix zabot!
      Our concern is simple;
      our concern is this:
      That our dear country would live,
      and there are no other concerns!

Declension[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “забота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kap(p)on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 349, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349