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Russian
Etymology
от- (ot-) + рад (rad) + -а (-a)
Pronunciation
Noun
отра́да • (otráda) f inan (genitive отра́ды, nominative plural отра́ды, genitive plural отра́д)
- delight, joy, comfort
1840, Михаил Лермонтов, “Часть первая. I. Бэла”, in Герой нашего времени; English translation from Martin Parker, transl., A Hero of Our Time, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951:Я пригласил своего спутника выпить вместе стакан чая, ибо со мной был чугунный чайник — единственная отрада моя в путешествиях по Кавказу.- Ja priglasil svojevo sputnika vypitʹ vmeste stakan čaja, ibo so mnoj byl čugunnyj čajnik — jedinstvennaja otrada moja v putešestvijax po Kavkazu.
- I invited my fellow traveller to join me at tea for I had with me a cast-iron teakettle—my sole comfort on my Caucasian travels.
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