ґвалт

• IPA^(key):

• Audio:

  (file)

ґвалт • (gvalt) m inan (genitive ґва́лту, nominative plural ґва́лты, genitive plural ґва́лтаў)

1. Taraškievica spelling of гвалт (hvalt).

From Old Ukrainian кгвалтъ (gvalt), гвалтъ (hvalt), ґвалтъ (gvalt), through Old Polish gwałt (Polish gwałt), from Middle High German gewalt (“strength, power”).

• IPA^(key):

• Audio:

  (file)

ґвалт • (gvalt) m inan (genitive ґва́лту, nominative plural ґва́лти, genitive plural ґва́лтів)

1. din, row, rumpus
2. violence

ґвалт • (gvalt)

1. Said to show that one is in distress and requires help.
   • 1958, Petro Hulak-Artemovskyi, Байки (Baiky), page 69:

     Ґвалт, миряни, що це з нами!

     Gvalt, myrjany, ščo ce z namy!

     Woe is me, people, what is happening to us!.

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ґвалт”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “ґвалт”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• “ґвалт”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)