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Belarusian
Etymology
From на- (na-) + зад (zad).
Pronunciation
Adverb
наза́д • (nazád)
- back, backward, backwards (to an opposite or reverse direction)
- back (to a previous condition or place)
- (postpositive) back, ago
- Synonym: (formal) таму́ наза́д (tamú nazád)
References
- “назад” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Bulgarian
Etymology
From на- (na-) + зад (zad)
Pronunciation
Adverb
наза́д • (nazád) (not comparable)
- back, backwards
- наза́де (nazáde) — fossilized locative case
References
- “назад”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “назад”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Nayden Gerov (1899) “наза́дъ, наза́дѣ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 160
Macedonian
Pronunciation
Adverb
назад • (nazad) (not comparable)
- backward, in the back
Pannonian Rusyn
Etymology
Inherited from Old Slovak nazad.
Pronunciation
Adverb
назад (nazad)
- back, backward
- Antonym: напредок (napredok)
2024 December 14, М. Афич, “Ремесло хторе ше отримало вецей як сто роки”, in Руске Слово:И заш ше так трафело же сом убег до тей старей Надьордьовей карчми, а вон бул там, та ми гварел: „Яй Владимире, Владимире, нє будзеш ти бановац? Нє придзеш назад?”- I zaš še tak trafelo že som ubeh do tej starej Nadʹordʹovej karčmi, a von bul tam, ta mi hvarel: „Jaj Vladimire, Vladimire, nje budzeš ti banovac? Nje pridzeš nazad?”
- And it happened again that I ran to the old Nađorđ tavern, and he was there, saying to me: "Hey Vladimir, Vladimir, won't you regret it? Won't you come back?"
2025 February 23, Вл. Дїтко, “Нє щезли памятки на велького фаховца и ерудиту”, in Руске Слово:Подприємство у хторим Александар роби ма коло 30 камиони, а накадзи ше враци зоз драги, наш собешеднїк на авту приходзи до Шиду, а так ше ознова и враца назад на роботу.- Podprijemstvo u xtorim Aleksandar robi ma kolo 30 kamioni, a nakadzi še vraci zoz drahi, naš sobešednjik na avtu prixodzi do Šidu, a tak še oznova i vraca nazad na robotu.
- The company where Aleksandar works has around 30 trucks, and as soon as he returns from the road, our interlocutor comes to Šid by car, and so he returns back to work again.
- synonym of назадок (nazadok)
References
- Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “назад”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
- Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “back”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 33
Russian
Etymology
на- (na-) + зад (zad)
Pronunciation
Adverb
наза́д • (nazád)
- back, backward, backwards
Derived terms
Interjection
наза́д • (nazád)
- get back
- Наза́д! ― Nazád! ― Get back! (often with an intensified form of emotion)
Postposition
наза́д • (nazád)
- ago
- Пять мину́т наза́д ― Pjatʹ minút nazád ― Five minutes ago
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nâzaːd/
- Hyphenation: на‧зад
Adverb
на̏за̄д (Latin spelling nȁzād)
- back, backwards
- Synonym: на̏тра̄г
- Antonym: на̏прије̄д / на̏пре̄д
- ићи назад ― to go back
Ukrainian
Etymology
From на- (na-) + зад (zad).
Pronunciation
Adverb
наза́д • (nazád)
- back, backward, backwards (to an opposite or reverse direction)
- back (to a previous condition or place)
- (postpositive, colloquial) back, ago
- Synonym: (noncolloquial) тому́ (tomú)
- па́ру ти́жнів наза́д ― páru týžniv nazád ― A couple of weeks back
Further reading
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “назад”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2025), “назад”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–15 (а – п'ять), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “назад”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
- A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “назад”, in English–Ukrainian Dictionaries
- “назад”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “назад”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)