маланка

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Etymology

From Old Ruthenian молоньꙗ (molonʹja) + -ка (-ka), from Proto-Slavic *mъldni (“lightning”). Compare dialectal Russian молонья (molonʹja).

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Noun

мала́нка • (malánka) f inan (genitive мала́нкі, nominative plural мала́нкі, genitive plural мала́нак)

  1. lightning bolt, lightning (weather phenomenon)
    Synonym: бліскаві́ца (bliskavíca)
  2. zipper (a zip fastener)
    Hypernym: за́сцежка (záscježka)
    • 2023 [2018], Sally Rooney, translated by Ганна Янкута, Нармальныя людзі‎, Янушкевіч, translation of Normal People, →ISBN:
      Мэрыян нахмурылася, кладучы расчоску ў кішэню чамадана і зашпільваючы яе на маланку.
      Meryjan naxmurylasja, kladučy rasčósku ŭ kišenju čamadana i zašpilʹvajučy jaje na malanku.
      (literally, “Marianne frowned, putting a hairbrush into the pocket of a suitcase and fastening its zipper.”)
  3. (archaic) urgent telegram (a message transmitted by telegraph)
    Hypernym: тэлегра́ма (teljehráma)
  4. (archaic) wall newspaper issued to address something urgent
    Hypernym: насценгазе́та (nascjenhazjéta)

Declension

Declension of мала́нка (inan velar fem-form accent-a reduc)
singular plural
nominative мала́нка
malánka 		мала́нкі
malánki
genitive мала́нкі
malánki 		мала́нак
malának
dative мала́нцы
maláncy 		мала́нкам
malánkam
accusative мала́нку
malánku 		мала́нкі
malánki
instrumental мала́нкай, мала́нкаю
malánkaj, malánkaju 		мала́нкамі
malánkami
locative мала́нцы
maláncy 		мала́нках
malánkax
count form — мала́нкі1
malánki1

1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

  • “маланка” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
  • “маланка”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
  • Bulyka, A. M., editor (1999), “молонья”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 18 (местце – надзовати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 137
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