куліса
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Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from French coulisse. Compare Russian кули́са (kulísa), Polish kulisa.
Pronunciation
Noun
кулі́са • (kulísa) f inan (genitive кулі́си, nominative plural кулі́си, genitive plural кулі́с)
- (theater, chiefly in the plural) coulisse, side scene
- (theater, by extension, only in the plural) wings, backstage
- (engineering, kinematics) link
Declension
Declension of кулі́са (inan hard fem-form accent-a)
Synonyms
- (theater): лашту́нки m pl (laštúnky)
Derived terms
- за кулі́сами (za kulísamy)
- за кулі́си (za kulísy)
- закулі́сний (zakulísnyj)
- кулі́сний (kulísnyj)
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “куліса”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2016), “куліса”, 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
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “куліса”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “куліса”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “куліса”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “куліса”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)