робость
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]ро́б(кий) (rób(kij)) + -ость (-ostʹ)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ро́бость • (róbostʹ) f inan (genitive ро́бости, uncountable)
- shyness, timidity
- 1837, Александр Пушкин, “Глава I”, in Египетские ночи; English translation from Thomas Keane, transl., The Egyptian Nights, 1916:
- В своей одежде он всегда наблюдал самую последнюю моду с робостию и суеверием молодого москвича, в первый раз отроду приехавшего в Петербург.
- V svojej odežde on vsegda nabljudal samuju poslednjuju modu s robostiju i sujeverijem molodovo moskviča, v pervyj raz otrodu prijexavševo v Peterburg.
- In his dress he always observed the very latest fashion, with the timidity and superstition of a young Moscovite arriving in St. Petersburg for the first time in his life.
Declension
[edit]Declension of ро́бость (inan sg-only fem-form 3rd-decl accent-a)
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