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Russian
Etymology
Possibly related to Czech blb, blbý, blbec. Alternatively from a Turkic language, compare Kazakh билбес (bilbes), Tatar билмәс (bilmäs, “he won't know”), and thus perhaps connected to бельмес (belʹmes).
Pronunciation
Noun
балбе́с • (balbés) m anim (genitive балбе́са, nominative plural балбе́сы, genitive plural балбе́сов)
- (colloquial) fool, idiot, simpleton, booby
- Synonyms: обалдуй (obalduj), балда́ (baldá)
1973, Михаил Булгаков , “Глава VI. Шизофрения, как и было сказано”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:— Сла́ва те го́споди! Нашёлся наконе́ц хоть оди́н норма́льный среди́ идио́тов, из кото́рых пе́рвый — балбе́с и безда́рность Са́шка!- — Sláva te góspodi! Našólsja nakonéc xotʹ odín normálʹnyj sredí idiótov, iz kotóryx pérvyj — balbés i bezdárnostʹ Sáška!
- ‘Thank the Lord! One normal man has finally turned up among the idiots, of whom the first is that giftless goof Sashka!’
Declension