колорад

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Russian

Etymology

For the sense of "Russian nationalist", it is from the similarity of the beetle's colours/colors from the Ribbon of Saint George, which is nowadays regarded as a symbol of Russian nationalism.

Pronunciation

Noun

колора́д • (kolorád) m anim (genitive колора́да, nominative plural колора́ды, genitive plural колора́дов)

  1. (colloquial) Colorado beetle.
  2. (offensive) Pro-Russian separatist in Donetsk/Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine.
  3. (politics, slang, derogatory) a Russian ultranationalist.

Declension

Declension of колора́д (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative колора́д
kolorád 		колора́ды
kolorády
genitive колора́да
koloráda 		колора́дов
kolorádov
dative колора́ду
kolorádu 		колора́дам
kolorádam
accusative колора́да
koloráda 		колора́дов
kolorádov
instrumental колора́дом
kolorádom 		колора́дами
kolorádami
prepositional колора́де
koloráde 		колора́дах
kolorádax

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