кошмар

Borrowed from French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcō (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.

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• Rhymes: -ar

кошма́р • (košmár) m (relational adjective кошма́рен)

1. nightmare

Borrowed from French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcare (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.

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кошмар • (košmar) m (plural кошмари, relational adjective кошмарен)

1. nightmare
2. (figurative) shock
3. chaos, disarray

• кошма́ръ (košmár) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Connected to French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcare (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.

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кошма́р • (košmár) m inan (genitive кошма́ра, nominative plural кошма́ры, genitive plural кошма́ров, relational adjective кошма́рный)

1. nightmare
2. (figuratively) disaster, horror (something extremely unpleasant)

   Synonyms: у́жас (úžas), пизде́ц (pizdéc) (vulgar), абза́ц (abzác) (euphemistic)

• кошма́рный (košmárnyj)

• → Belarusian: кашмар (kašmar)
• → Georgian: კოშმარი (ḳošmari), კაშმარი (ḳašmari) — nonstandard
• → Kazakh: кошмар (koşmar)
• → Polish: koszmar

кошма́р • (košmár)

1. it's terrible!

   Synonym: у́жас (úžas)

Borrowed from French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcare (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.

ко̏шма̄р m (Latin spelling kȍšmār)

1. nightmare
2. incubus

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кошмар

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Borrowed from French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcare (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).

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кошма́р • (košmár) m inan (genitive кошма́ру, nominative plural кошма́ри, genitive plural кошма́рів, relational adjective кошма́рний)

1. nightmare

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “кошмар”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “кошмар”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “кошмар”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• “кошмар”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “кошмар”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)