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Russian
Etymology
From Old East Slavic зобота (zobota), from Proto-Slavic , possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”). Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”) (whence English keep). Also compare Ukrainian забо́та (zabóta), Slovene zóbati.
Pronunciation
Noun
забо́та • (zabóta) f inan (genitive забо́ты, nominative plural забо́ты, genitive plural забо́т)
- care
- concern, anxiety, worry, trouble
1958, “Песня о тревожной молодости (Song of the Restless Youth)”, Lev Oshanin (lyrics), Aleksandra Pakhmutova (music):Забота у нас простая,
Забота наша такая:
Жила бы страна родная,
И нету других забот!- Zabota u nas prostaja,
Zabota naša takaja:
Žila by strana rodnaja,
I netu drugix zabot! - Our concern is simple;
our concern is this:
That our dear country would live,
and there are no other concerns!
Declension
Related terms
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “забота”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kap(p)on”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN