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Belarusian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Ruthenian кгмахъ (gmax). Compare German Gemach and Polish gmach.
Pronunciation
Noun
гмах • (hmax) m inan (genitive гма́ху, nominative plural гма́хі, genitive plural гма́хаў)
- edifice, large high-rise building
- Hypernym: буды́нак (budýnak)
- (figurative) a big and majestic thing
- Synonym: грама́да (hramáda)
Declension
Declension of гмах (inan velar masc-form accent-a)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “гмах”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
- “гмах” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (1996), “кгмахъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 15 (катъ – коречный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 54