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Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish kobieta. Cognate with Belarusian кабе́та (kabjéta).
Pronunciation
Noun
кобі́та • (kobíta) f pers (genitive кобі́ти, nominative plural кобі́ти, genitive plural кобі́т, diminutive кобі́тка) (Western Ukraine)
- (Western Ukraine) woman
2014, Mykhailo Khoma (DZIDZIO), Volodymyr Parfenyuk (VovaZIL’Vova) (lyrics and music), “Павук [Spider]”:Бо́дя був чо́рний і бі́лий, / Бо́дя не був дибі́лом! / Але́ його́ кобі́та вважа́ла не так!- Bódja buv čórnyj i bílyj, / Bódja ne buv dybílom! / Alé johó kobíta vvažála ne tak!
- Bodya was black and white / Bodya was not an imbecile! / But his woman didn't think so!
Declension
Declension of кобі́та (pers hard fem-form accent-a)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кобі́та”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 477
- “кобі́та”, in Вільний тлумачний словник української мови [Free Explanatory Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), digital edition, 2013–2018
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2016), “кобі́та”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 7 (кварта́л – кя́хтинський), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “кобіта”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)