Кавказ

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Etymology

From Russian Кавказ (Kavkaz).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Noun

Кавказ • (Kavkaz)

  1. Caucasus a region in Eurasia
    Кавказда ир бала тыуыуҙы мылтыҡтан атып хəбəр итəлəр.
    Kavkazda ir bala tıwıwźı mıltıqtan atıp xəbər itələr.
    In the Caucasus, they would fire a rifle to signal that a boy is born.

Declension

Inflection of Кавказ (Kavkaz)
singular only
absolute Кавказ (Kavkaz)
definite genitive Кавказдың (Kavkazdıñ)
dative Кавказға (Kavkazğa)
definite accusative Кавказды (Kavkazdı)
locative Кавказда (Kavkazda)
ablative Кавказдан (Kavkazdan)

Russian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos), ultimately of Iranian origin.

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Was already attested in Old East Slavic as Кавкасийскыѣ горы, a calque of Καυκάσια ὄρη, however according to Vasmer and Trubachyov the current form Кавказ stems from French Caucase and German Kaukasus.

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Proper noun

Кавка́з • (Kavkáz) m inan (genitive Кавка́за)

  1. Caucasus
    на Кавка́зе ― na Kavkáze ― in the Caucasus

Declension

Declension of Кавка́з (inan sg-only masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular
nominative Кавка́з
Kavkáz
genitive Кавка́за
Kavkáza
dative Кавка́зу
Kavkázu
accusative Кавка́з
Kavkáz
instrumental Кавка́зом
Kavkázom
prepositional Кавка́зе
Kavkáze

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Descendants

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “Кавказ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǎʋkaz/
  • Hyphenation: Кав‧каз

Proper noun

Ка̀вказ m (Latin spelling Kàvkaz)

  1. Caucasus

Declension

Declension of Кавказ
singular
nominative Кавказ
genitive Кавказа
dative Кавказу
accusative Кавказ
vocative Кавказу
locative Кавказу
instrumental Кавказем
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