добродушный

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic добродꙋшьнꙑи (dobrodušĭnyi), from добро (dobro, good) + дꙋша (duša, soul) + -ьнꙑи (-ĭnyi), a calque of Ancient Greek εὔψυχος (eúpsukhos). Also, compare with Macedonian добродушен (dobrodušen), Serbo-Croatian добродушан, Czech dobrodušný, Polish dobroduszny.

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Adjective

доброду́шный (dobrodúšnyj)

  1. good-natured

Declension

References

  • Shansky, N. M., editor (1973), “добродушный”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, number 5 (Д, Е, Ж), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 146