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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Turkic language, compare Kazakh қалта (qalta, “pouch, pocket”), from Persian خلته (xalta), خلیته (xalīta), from Arabic خَرِيطَة (ḵarīṭa).
Pronunciation
Noun
калита́ • (kalitá) m inan (genitive калиты́, nominative plural калиты́, genitive plural кали́т)
- (archaic) money bag, burse, purse
- Synonyms: коше́ль (košélʹ), киса́ (kisá), мошна́ (mošná), сума́ (sumá)
- (Northern Russia) a small pastry with potato or cabbage filling
- Synonym: пирожо́к (pirožók)
Declension
References
- Monchi-Zadeh, Daoud (1975) “Iranische Miszellen”, in Monumentum H. S. Nyberg (Acta Iranica; 5), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, page 65
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “калита”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress