трухлявый

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *truxlъ. By surface analysis, труха́ (truxá) +‎ -ля́вый (-ljávyj). Related to Macedonian трул (trul), Serbo-Croatian труо, Slovene truhel and Slovak trúchlý.

Pronunciation

Adjective

трухля́вый (truxljávyj) (comparative (по)трухля́вее or (по)трухля́вей)

  1. rotten, old and broken
    • 1975, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], “Книга вторая. Часть шестая. Исход”, in Град обреченный; English translation from Andrew Bromfield, transl., The Doomed City, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016:
      Всё бы́ло пы́льное, трухля́вое, истле́вшее, а вдоль стены́ сле́ва тяну́лись таки́е же пы́льные трухля́вые скамьи́.
      Vsjo býlo pýlʹnoje, truxljávoje, istlévšeje, a vdolʹ stený sléva tjanúlisʹ takíje že pýlʹnyje truxljávyje skamʹí.
      Everything was dusty, crumbling, and decayed, and the wall on the left was lined with equally dusty and decayed benches.

Declension