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Kazakh
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian рапи́ра (rapíra), from German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.
Noun
рапира • (rapira)
- (fencing) foil
Declension
Russian
Etymology
From German Rapier, or directly from French rapière.
Pronunciation
Noun
рапи́ра • (rapíra) f inan (genitive рапи́ры, nominative plural рапи́ры, genitive plural рапи́р)
- (historical) rapier (a European sword with a straight, narrow blade)
- Synonym: шпа́га (špága)
- (fencing) foil (a very thin sword used in fencing competitions)
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Further reading
- рапира in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “рапира”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress