журавль

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Райский журавль (Anthropoides paradiseus).
Колодезный журавль.

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Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic жеравль (žeravlĭ), from Proto-Slavic *žeravľь. Cognates include Belarusian жураве́ль (žuravjélʹ) and Ukrainian жураве́ль (žuravélʹ).

The figurative sense is a reference to the proverb не сули́ журавля́ в не́бе, дай сини́цу в ру́ки (ne sulí žuravljá v nébe, daj sinícu v rúki).

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жура́вль (žurávlʹm anim or m inan (genitive журавля́, nominative plural журавли́, genitive plural журавле́й, relational adjective журавли́ный)

  1. (animate) crane (bird)
    • 1969, “Журавли (Žuravli) ”, Наум Гребнев (lyrics), Ян Френкель (music)‎performed by Марк Бернес , translation of ХъахӀал къункъраби by Расул Гамзатов (in Avar):
      Мне кажется порою, что солдаты,
      С кровавых не пришедшие полей,
      Не в землю нашу полегли когда-то,
      А превратились в белых журавлей.
      Mne kažetsja poroju, što soldaty,
      S krovavyx ne prišedšije polej,
      Ne v zemlju našu polegli kogda-to,
      A prevratilisʹ v belyx žuravlej.
      It seems to me at times, that soldiers,
      Who did not return from the blood-stained fields,
      Never lay down in this earth of ours,
      But turned into white cranes.
  2. (animate, figuratively) pie in the sky, jam tomorrow
    Synonym: жура́вль в не́бе (žurávlʹ v nébe)
    охотится за журавлёмoxotitsja za žuravljómto chase a pie in the sky
  3. (inanimate) sweep, swape, shadoof (a traditional crane-like device with a lever arm used to lift buckets of water from a well)
  4. (inanimate, Ukraine) a type of folk dance

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