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Russian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic окорокъ (okorokŭ), from Proto-Slavic *okorkъ, from *ob- + *korkъ (“leg”).
Pronunciation
Noun
о́корок • (ókorok) m inan (genitive о́корока, nominative plural окорока́, genitive plural окороко́в, diminutive окорочо́к)
- ham, gammon
1884, Антон Чехов, “Глава II”, in Шведская спичка; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Swedish Match, 1922:На столе большое блюдо с окороком, бутыль с водкой, тарелки, ножи, вилки.- Na stole bolʹšoje bljudo s okorokom, butylʹ s vodkoj, tarelki, noži, vilki.
- On the table there stood a big dish of ham, a bottle of vodka, plates, knives and forks.
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References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “окорок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “окорок”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 647